Mattias Ellert writes ("Standardization documents in xsd and wsdl format"):
> Various standardization bodies like e.g. W3C and OASIS that publish data
> communication standards, provide xsd and/or wsdl files describing these
> standards. These files, though machine readable and parsable by various
> interpreters, are often published with a documentation license rather
> than a software license since they are considered part of the
> standardization document rather than software that helps users implement
> the standard. Standardization bodies tend to want to not have random
> people making random changes to their standardization documents that
> would create incompatible versions of the standards. The documentation
> licenses used by these organization therefore usually do not allow
> modification.That would make these files non-free. > Are such xsd and wsdl files allowed in Debian source packages, or do > they have to be deleted from the source tarball? Are they allowed to be > installed by Debian binary packages? (I guess the answer to both > questions would be the same.) Current Debian practice is that all non-files, including these, must be removed. You must repack the source tarball. There are a variety of tools to help make this less tiresome. (I think this is pointless make-work but it appears that the project consensus, and the ftpmaster policy, is against me.) Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
