AW: Bug#346354: Is distribution of the maxdb-doc package a GPL violation?

[debian@martin-kittel.de]

Hi,

>> 
>> This seems to be a problem only because the GPL is used... Would the
>> files be under a less restrictive licence we would be perfectly OK
>> distributing them as is...
>
>Sort of.  Debian requires source for everything that it distributes in
>main.  If it were not GPL'd, it would still have to go into non-free.
>

I have verfified that the actual sources for the generated HTML are Microsoft Word documents and that those will not be distributed. Does the mean that the maxdb-doc package will have to be pulled from the repository?

Best wishes,

Martin.