On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 12:04:22PM -0500, Felix Kühling wrote: > I was trying to get my project DRIconf hosted at Savannah (Non-GNU) and > found out that as of recently Savannah requires all new projects to > license their documentation under the GFDL, which we all know, Debian > considers non-free. Dual-licensing under GFDL and GPL is apparently > still ok. See also > http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?func=detailitem&item_id=5214.
While it's "their servers, their rules", I think the rule is a bit weird -- the GPL is a perfectly valid licence for documentation, and it's an FSF licence. What really got me saying "whoa!" though is the blog post linked from the ticket comments -- the fourth paragraph seems to say that Savannah changed it's policy because Debian doesn't think the GFDL is DFSG-free. Worrying, if true. - Matt