On Friday 21 April 2006 10:19, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: > Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > > The licence allows free distribution, including translation, but > > has some restrictions regarding reformed German spelling, > > notifications to the author (i. e. me) if any major changes are > > applied, and another restriction with respect to commercial > > printing. > > Be aware, that such restricted licenses are the reason, why > scribus-doc is deleted from the package in the official Debian > distribution. > > See: > > $ apt-cache show scribus-doc > Package: scribus-doc > Priority: optional > Section: non-free/doc > ^^^^^^^^ > > This means, that scribus-doc is not installable without changing > the default repositories, and also is not delivered on official > Debian-CDs. > > Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Hi, Yes and this *was* a very carefully thought out decision. In Christian's case, I find this type of license entirely reasonable. While it causes a bit more work for Alex, who does a fabulous job of maintaining Scribus, I am not about to change the license for the Scribus. In some respects, the license I have chosen is 'freer' than the some of the FSF Document licenses. Despite our arguments, Debian legal thought otherwise. That decision *has* been made and not subject to revision, nor do I wish to debate the finer points of document licensing. I just want to make clear that I was very aware of how this affected packaging and the like. Cheers, Peter
