[Pkg-doc-linux-devel] missing HOWTOs

[Frank Lichtenheld]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 08:06:05AM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> Dear Debian LDP Maintainers,
> 
> I'm the author of the:
> 
>    * Linux Gamers' HOWTO
>    * Debian-Jigdo HOWTO
> 
> They don't appear to be in doc-linux-text (2004.07-1) anymore.

They are actually in doc-linux-nonfree-text since 2004.04-1:

* The following licenses were found non-free by the
  debian-legal team: OPL 1.0, OSL 1.1, CC-Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0
  Moving the corresponding HOWTOs to the non-free packages:
    Debian-Jigdo Linux-Gamers-HOWTO Adv-Routing-HOWTO Apache-Overview-HOWTO
    Battery-Powered Cable-Modem DHCP Lex-YACC-HOWTO NFS-HOWTO
    Online-Troubleshooting-HOWTO MMBase-Inst-HOWTO User-Group-HOWTO
(from the changelog)

A rationale can be found at
http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/dls-007-osl

There are ongoing discussions on debian-legal about documentation
licenses and which Debian could accept as free. Therefor I don't
currently contact authors very actively about their licenses because I don't
really know what to propose (most documentation licenses actually
suffer from the same problems, like the usual attribution clauses).

(For documentation bundled with software it is usually recommended
to use the same license for the whole work, but that isn't the
situation for HOWTOs)

Gruesse,
-- 
Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
www: http://www.djpig.de/