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Re: Bug#116633: ITP: ebook-dev-alp -- Advanced Linux Programming



On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:

[...]

>
> Advanced Linux Programming is published under the Open Publication
> License, Version 1, no options exercised. (Due to an oversight in final
> production, the copyright notice on the book is incorrect.) The full
> text may be downloaded from this site. Code samples in the book are
> covered by the GNU General Public License and are also available.
>
> ----
>
> Site: www.advancedlinuxprogramming.com
> Copyright: OPL 1.0
> Section: non-free/doc
>
> My guess is that OPL stuff should be included in non-free sections
> due to limitation in content modifications.
>

If none of the options are specified, the restrictions on modifications
(basically you have to say it is modified and where the original is)
should allow it to go into main IMO. AFAIK, we do have other OPL-licensed
stuff in main.  But debian-legal would know better.  Did you ask there?


-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>



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