On Friday 21 April 2006 11:23, PLinnell wrote: > On Friday 21 April 2006 10:39, Brian Burger wrote:> On 4/21/06, Helmut > Wollmersdorfer <helmut.wollmersdorfer at gmx.at> 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.>> Interesting - there is no > "scribus-doc" package at all in Ubuntu> 5.10, and when I start Scribus > 1.2.2.1 and go Help->Scribus Manual,> all I get is a blank help window with > "Sorry, no manual available!> Please see: http://docs.scribus.net for > updated docs and> www.scribus.net for downloads." in it.>> Is this because > of the license, or something else? (I'm running> Ubuntu w/ Gnome, not > Kubuntu w/ KDE, for example...)>> Brian. Hi, > I do not know, you would need to ask the Ubuntu folks, but one of the first > things we do for almost any visitor to IRC using Ubuntu to add our repo, so > that users can replace 1.2.2.1 with 1.2.4.1, which is more feature complete > and more stable than even 1.2.2.1. Also, for Ubuntu users, I have added an > FAQ section here: > http://www.scribus.net/admin.php?module=FAQ&op=FaqCatGo&id_cat=13 Cheers, > Peter
The point is that Christoph who is writing that document doesn't like the new German spelling rules so he doesn't want anyone to change it. He also applies a similar no comemrcial printing without permission clause like we have on the official Scribus documentation. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 191 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20060421/4b2e1baa/attachment.pgp
