Hi Dimitrij, On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:49 AM, <dmitrij.led...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all > > Software in question: GnomeSword > Software licence: GPL v2 or (at your option) any later > > The documentation (Gnome Help file) is covered by GFDL 1.1 with no > invariant sections and a disclaimer.[1] > > I want to clarify that it still qualifies for the staying in Main. I've > googled a lot about > Debian and GFDL 1.2 but I'm a bit confused if the Debian resolution applies > to GFDL 1.1 as well. > > It also puzzles me that > GFDL 1.1 is not present in /usr/share/common-licenses/ > And the proposed copyright format doesn't have GFDL-1.1 tag either (only > v1.2) > > I'm member of the Crosswire packaging team and we are working on the new > upsream > release and hoping to get it into Jaunty and upload to Debian after Lenny > (due to dependencies). > > Please help me to understand if this software with this documentation is > DFSG > compliant. > > [1] This is legal notice of the help file. > > Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under > the > terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), Version 1.1 or any later > version published by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant > Sections, no > Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. You can find a copy of the GFDL > at > this link or in the file COPYING-DOCS distributed with this manual. >
As you can see it says 'Version 1.1 or any later version', so it can be used under GFDL 1.2 as well. So that should be fine. Andrew -- Andrew Donnellan <>< andrew[at]donnellan[dot]name http://andrew.donnellan.name ajdlinux[at]gmail[dot]com http://linux.org.au hkp://subkeys.pgp.net 0x5D4C0C58 --------------------------------------------------------------- "the govt should be paying the tax" - A friend of mine, 02/11/2008 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org