Guido Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > I've been asked by the debian release team to look into this bug and see what > can be done to have a successful resolution... The situation seems to be this > one: > > 1) maxdb-doc is a package which contains some GPL licensed html manual files > 2) the GPL asks for the source code (defined as: "preferred form of > the work for making modifications to it") to be available > 3) the html files are determined to be automatically generated by a > tool called "SAP Html Export", and the files which originate them > are not available > > This seems to be a problem only because the GPL is used... Would the > files be under a less restrictive licence we would be perfectly OK > distributing them as is...
Sort of. Debian requires source for everything that it distributes in main. If it were not GPL'd, it would still have to go into non-free. > I'm addressing this mail to the debian-legal list too for a > consultation about whether they think this package is distributable > at all or not as is, and what would they recommend... As is, it is not distributable. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
