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Bug#316487: debian-installer-manual: Missing copyright credit: Karsten M. Self for section C.4



Package: debian-installer-manual
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.3


Section C.4 of the Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide is based on notes
I wrote for performing a chroot installation of Debian under an existing
GNU/Linux system.

The current version of the manual has modified this work, but is still
clearly based on the documents I wrote originally in 1999, and further
ammended in 2002 and continue to maintain, with most recent
modifications in May, 2004:

    http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/install-under-chroot.html
    http://kmself.home.netcom.com/GNU/Linux/FAQs/DebianChrootInstall.html
    http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DebianChrootInstall

The terms for distribution of my work is clearly stated:

    © 2002-2004 Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) This document may
    be freely distributed, copied, or modified, with attribution, this
    notice, and the following disclaimer:

        THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.

        IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR
        ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
        CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. 


The Debian Project has been distributing this work in violation of my
copyrights.  I've previously requested this be remedied in 2003, the
situation remains uncorrected:

    http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2003/05/msg00489.html

The use of my works has been confirmed by one of the 
debian-installer-manual developers:

    http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2003/05/msg00491.html

My distribution terms *are* DFSG free.  I'm merely requesting that
credit for my contributions be given.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (950, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)



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