SELFHTML again.
Hi all,
I'm trying to get SELFHTML into Debian, but there are some license
problems.
Here's the reject-message I got from the FTP-masters:
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Going by your English translation of the German license, the exceptions
paragraph is a problem:
The permission mentioned above in the paragraph "Distribution and
Republishing" is not given, if the environment (e.g. the rest of the
content of the CD-ROM or the rest of the content of the WWW site) contains
illegal contents, sedition, or rassistic contents. It's especially
forbidden to bring SELFHTML together with Nazi content, child pornography
or fundamentalistic-religious contents.
I'm not sure what you mean by "rassistic". My guess is that you might mean
"racist", which means this can't be distributed alongside Debian, as the
offensive fortunes packages do contain comments of this nature.
There's also the "fundamentalistic-religious" contents, which might be
violated by Debian's distribution of various bibles.
Please clarify these two points (confirming with the upstream editors),
and upload again if both are not problems (with the copyright file
updated with this new information).
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I'm in contact with the upstream author, and he is willing to
give Debian the explicit permission that SELFHTML can be
distributed with Debian...
If possible, he wants to give that permission as an extra permission
(i.e. not included in the usual upstream license).
Now my question (mostly to the FTP-admins):
Is such an extra permission enough to allow SELFHTML into the archive,
despite the paragraphs about racism and fundamentalistic-religious
contents etc. remaining in the upstream license?
The permission could probably be something like this (I'm just guessing):
"I hereby grant the Debian project explicit permission to distribute
SELFHTML, even if the Debian distribution contains material mentioned
in paragraph xyz of the SELFHTML license."
I'm thankful for any advice how the permission could be formulated so
that it's legally effective etc...
TIA, Uwe.
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Uwe Hermann
uwe@debian.org
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