Package: pdl Version: 1:2.4.7+dfsg-2 X-Debbugs-CC: per...@jach.hawaii.edu There're a few PDL manual pages that bear copyright notices (see below) that, to my understanding, limit the user's freedom to distribute the derived works. Specifically, these notices conflict DFSG [1] in that they either:
• disallow “modifications and derived works” (by the means of format conversion) “to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software” (DFSG #3; should we assume that the license allows commercial distribution of the unaltered documentation); • restrict a “party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources” (DFSG #1; should we assume that the commercial distribution is denied altogether.) I thus believe that the distribution terms of the manual pages in question should either be changed or clarified, or the manual pages should be removed from the Debian package. [1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines $ (for i in PDL::Objects PDL::QuickStart PDL::BadValues ; do \ printf '* %s\n' "$i" && man "$i" | grep -A2 -B4 -F Commercial ; \ done) * PDL::Objects AUTHOR Copyright (C) Karl Glazebrook (k...@aaoepp.aao.gov.au), Tuomas J. Lukka, (lu...@husc.harvard.edu) and Christian Soeller (c.soel...@auckland.ac.nz) 2000. Commercial reproduction of this documentation in a different format is forbidden. * PDL::QuickStart AUTHOR Copyright (C) Karl Glazebrook (k...@aaoepp.aao.gov.au), Tuomas J. Lukka, (lu...@husc.harvard.edu) and Christian Soeller (c.soel...@auckland.ac.nz) 1997. Commercial reproduction of this documentation in a different format is forbidden. * PDL::BadValues Copyright (C) Doug Burke (djbu...@cpan.org), 2000, 2006. The per-piddle bad value support is by Heiko Klein (2006). Commercial reproduction of this documentation in a different format is forbidden. $ -- FSF associate member #7257
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