Hello members of debian-legal, It isn't currently well known that Debian website's license is Open Publication License, which has been judged to be non-free, and therefore needs to be changed.
Currently web pages are "Copyright © 1997-2005 SPI" and license terms linking to Open Publication license are available at <URL: http://www.de.debian.org/license >. However SPI has not been collecting any paper work to transfer copyrights like FSF does, and probably many contributors do not even know about that their work is automatically copyrighted by SPI. So basically there is two questions: Does missing paperwork create a problem? And what would be good license for Debians web pages? (This is about content, the scripts used in generation are GNU GPL or otherwise freely licensed.) Because copyright is currently claimed by SPI Inc, and SPI's board meeting is coming rather soon, I brought this issue to SPI's secretarys attention, but SPI board would appreciate some suggestion what they should decide about license change. I've Cc'ed the bug report about the issue, but Mail-followups does not contain bug report. Add it if needed, please. -- Tommi Vainikainen
