Bug#540736: org-mode: documentation in ‘main’ under non-free license

2009-08-09 Thread Ben Finney 
Package: org-mode
Version: 6.27a-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.2.1

The documentation for ‘org-mode’ is distributed under a non-free
license [0], according to ‘debian/copyright’:

   org-mode's documentation:
   =
   Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation

   org-mode's orgcard is licensed under the GPL, and org-mode's manual
   is dual licensed under the GPL and GFDL (with the following
   restrictions:

   Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
   document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
   Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software
   Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover texts
   being "A GNU Manual," and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a)
   below.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
   "GNU Free Documentation License."

Since these terms restrict modification of the work, the package
currently fails to meet DFSG §3 and hence violates Policy §2.2.1. The
package is not suitable for Debian ‘main’ while it includes non-free
parts.

Also, though not necessary to resolving this bug, it would be good to
communicate with the upstream author of ‘org-mode’ to see if the
documentation can be licensed under the same free terms as the rest of
the work. (If the FSF insist on having the terms of the FDL, the
author could dual-license the documentation under recipient's choice
of FDL or GPL to allow this.)

[0] http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001#outcome>

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Bug#540736: org-mode: documentation in ‘main’ under non-free license

2009-08-09 Thread Sebastien Delafond 
On Aug/10, Ben Finney wrote:
> The documentation for ‘org-mode’ is distributed under a non-free
> license [0], according to ‘debian/copyright’:
> 
>org-mode's documentation:
>=
>Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation
> 
>org-mode's orgcard is licensed under the GPL, and org-mode's manual
>is dual licensed under the GPL and GFDL (with the following
>restrictions:
>
> [...]
> 
> Also, though not necessary to resolving this bug, it would be good to
> communicate with the upstream author of ‘org-mode’ to see if the
> documentation can be licensed under the same free terms as the rest of
> the work. (If the FSF insist on having the terms of the FDL, the
> author could dual-license the documentation under recipient's choice
> of FDL or GPL to allow this.)

The upstream author is already dual-licensing a version of his
documentation, available at:

  http://orgmode.org/org_dual_license.texi

It's the version that I use in my package; I agree my phrasing in
debian/copyright is slightly misleading, perhaps it should read more
something like:

  org-mode's manual is dual licensed under the GPL, and GFDL with the
  following restrictions: [...]

Or not mention the GFDL restrictions at all, since we use the GPL
licensing of the documentation anyway ? What do you think ?

Cheers,

--Seb



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