On Friday 12 August 2005 02:40 am, Ryan Schultz wrote: > On Thursday 11 August 2005 10:14 pm, Andrew Saunders wrote: > > The documentation in doc/en appears to be covered by the terms of the > > GNU Free Documentation License which is widely considered to be > > non-free[1]. That docbook file'll need to be either relicensed, > > removed or split off into its own package in the non-free section > > before kmuddy can go into main. > > > > [1] http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.html > > Thank you; I didn't think to check the documentation license, but that's > definitely an issue now with GFDL being decided as non-free. I've contacted > upstream about relicensing -- otherwise, I think there's enough > documentation there to justify splitting the docs to non-free.
Okay, upstream's main developer has agreed to relicense under a DFSG-free license -- he has to check with the other documentation author yet, but he doesn't think it will be a problem. So KMuddy should be green for main as soon as I get full confirmation, then. -- Ryan Schultz -> The meek shall indeed inherit the Earth -- the rest of us will take to the stars.
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