Stefano - > On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 09:52:14PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > The name "Open Publication License" is right, the URL was wrong. > > Could you please correct the URL then? I guess the following is the > correct one: > > http://opencontent.org/openpub/
I have changed it. The ftp server will soon have the updated files. > > The book by Steve Oualline uses this license, I used it for the Vim > > documentation to avoid any trouble. Otherwise I don't care much what > > license is used exactly. > > So we have quite a problem in Debian now, regarding the Vim Manual :-( > The Open Publication License is not a free license according to the > Debian Free Software Guidelines [1]. This has been discussed on the > debian-legal mailing list, the conclusion and the discussions are > available in the Debian wiki [2]. > > The bug report Cc-ed is a bug raising this issue [3]. > > As the things are now, we will be forced to remove the vim manual from > the free section of the Debian archive and move it to non-free. Users > will then be able to install vim with the default debian configuration, > but wont be able to do it without adding the non-free archives to their > repository configuration. I fear that this would also mean that vim wont > be the standard vi-like editor in the debian distribution :-(( > > Do you think it is possible to relicense the manual under a different > license? (The best possible is usually the same that applies to the > source code of the program itself). How many parts are taken from > Oualline's book? Is it possible to rewrite them? We are of course > willing to help in that, but maybe we are luckily enough that no more > parts took from the book are still in the help ... It sounds like you are splitting hairs. As far as I know the OPL is a free license, since it allows distribution and modification. What part of the OPL makes it non-free? - Bram -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 214. Your MCI "Circle of Friends" are all Hayes-compatible. /// Bram Moolenaar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
