docbook-doc: copyright problem. need some help.
few days ago i adopted the up-for-adoption package docbook-doc with
the intention to maintain it uptodate with the source.
the problem is that the old source this documentation was downloaded from
is not the official one any more and now it doesn't provide any
documentation for docbook.
the new commettee is the OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org/) one and refers
to oreilly for the documentation. oreilly publishes sgml sources of is docs
and the html formatted version. *none* of them is free or for redistribution.
ence docbook-doc package can not distribute any official documentation.
my question is: can i put in this package any other source of documentation
or it must be the official one?
in the first case, a docbook tutorial from caldera
(http://www.caldera.de/~eric/) with a free license is, in my opinion, a good
candidate. it is not very complete but is surely a good starting point for
who need to start somewhere.
in the latter case this package will never be updated any more until a new
official *and* free or at least redistributable reference documentation
will be published.
another point. it seems very outdated since it talks about changes planned for
the 3.0 release (now it is at 4.1.2), should it be in the archive or not
(better an old and free one instead of a non existing one?)
if this package has not any more sense it should be withdrawn, shouldn't it?
thanks for any help
domenico
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