Re: Debian and the GFDL problem

[Posted January 11, 2006 by corbet]

From:		Federico Mena Quintero <federico-AT-ximian.com>
To:		Jordi Mallach <jordi-AT-debian.org>
Subject:		Re: Debian and the GFDL problem
Date:		Wed, 04 Jan 2006 22:01:42 -0600
Cc:		pkg-kde-talk-AT-lists.alioth.debian.org, debian-gtk-gnome-AT-lists.debian.org, desktop-devel-list-AT-gnome.org

On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 19:41 +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote:

> As many might be aware, the Debian project has been concerned about the
> non-freeness of the GNU Free Documentation Licence for a few years
> already, and although conversations with the Free Software Foundation
> have been ongoing for at least four years, we don't know if our
> legal advise to the FSF will end up in a new GFDL version being
> published that addresses the problems in time for the new Debian
> release.

It is up to Debian to follow up with the FSF on creating a new version
of the GFDL which addresses Debian's concerns.

It is also up to Debian to contact and negotiate with every individual
author of documentation which happens to have a problematic license.

  Federico