Hi, Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote:
> As you already know, the documents taken from the official Debian > website are not really copyrighted by SPI: [...] > Moreover, those documents are licensed under the terms of the > Open Publication License, Draft v1.0 or later, and thus fail to comply > with the DFSG: [...] > But it is an even worse issue for the doc-debian package, > which is shipped in the main archive! Thanks for starting this. Many parts of www.debian.org are already relicensed by now. Maybe this bug could be resolved by updating the copyright information and calling it a day (update: no). Here's a quick copyright survey. Of course most of the details below are only guesses. Still to find: * Raul Miller's wishes for the part of the constitution he wrote * origins of debian-manifesto and source-unpack.txt * social contract license Files: doc/bug-* License: GPL-2 Origin: package debbugs Files: doc/constitution.1.0.wml History: Added to webwml under current filename by Manoj 2003-10-31. Added to webwml by Darren Benham, 1998-12-04, after ratification. Amended by Ian Jackson and Darren Benham, 1998-11 and 1998-10 (see -devel). From Ian Jackson's website (~ian/debian-organisation.html), 1998-09. v0.8 proposed by Ian 1998-05-28 (see -devel). v0.7 proposed by Ian 1998-04-27 (see -devel). v0.6.1 proposed by Ian 1998-04-07 (see -devel). v0.6 proposed by Ian 1998-04-06 (see -devel). v0.5.1 proposed by Ian 1998-04-03 (see -devel). v0.5 proposed by Ian 1998-04-02 (see -devel). v0.4 proposed by Ian 1998-03-26 (see -devel). v0.3 proposed by Ian 1998-03-20 (see -devel). v0.2 proposed by Ian 1998-03-19 (see -devel). initial version (v0.1) published by Ian 1998-03-19 (see -devel). Copyright: 1998, Ian Jackson License: Expat or GPL-2+ http://people.debian.org/~spaillard/website/relicensing/www-relicensing-ok Files: doc/constitution.1.1.wml History: Added to webwml under current filename 2003-10-31 Condorcet/cloneproof SSD voting GR: 2003-06-22 Wording: 2002-10-16 (see -vote) etc Full recommendation from voting methods committee: 2002-08-21 (see -vote). First recommendation from voting methods committee: 2002-02-11 (see -vote). Copyright: 1998, Ian Jackson 2002, Raul Miller 2002, Manoj Srivasta License: OPL? Files: doc/constitution.1.2.wml History: Added to webwml under current filename 2006-09-24 Nontechnical policy maintenance GR: 2003-10-31 Tightened wording: 2003-09-23 (on -vote) Protecting foundational documents: 2000-10-10 (on -vote) Wording, part 1: 2000-10-10 (on -vote) Copyright: 1998, Ian Jackson 2002, Raul Miller 2002, 2003, Manoj Srivasta License: OPL? Files: doc/constitution.1.3.wml History: Added to webwml under current filename 2008-02-21 Assets handling GR: 2006-09-24 Proposal: 2006-07-20 (on -vote) Drafting seems to have happened in the previous month. Copyright: 1998, Ian Jackson 2002, Raul Miller 2002, 2003, 2006, Manoj Srivasta License: OPL? Files: doc/constitution.wml History: Published copy reflecting DPL election GR: 2008-02-21 Proposal: 2007-07-31 (on -vote) Copyright: 1998, Ian Jackson 2002, Raul Miller 2002, 2003, 2006, Manoj Srivasta 2007, Anthony Towns License: OPL? Files: doc/debian-manifesto doc/source-unpack.txt History: ? Copyright: ? License: ? Note: not on website Files: doc/Makefile History: ? Copyright: ? License: ? Files: doc/social-contract.1.0.wml doc/social-contract.wml History: Developed in private, as far as I can tell. Only public signs of it are 1997-06-08 on debian-devel and the result on debian-announce, 1997-07-04. . Amended to clarify some points --- in particular avoiding unnecessary references to software --- around 2003-12-27 (on -vote) Copyright: 1997, Bruce Perens (?) 2003, Branden Robinson (?) 2003, Andrew Suffield (?) License: OPL? CC-BY-2.5? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
