Re: Debian and the GNU Free documentation license
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:
> Beginning in 2001, concerns regarding the compatibility of the
> GNU Free Documentation License with the Debian Free Software
> Guidelines came to the attention of the debian-legal mailing list.
[...]
> Unfortunately, most of this discussion has been confined to
> the debian-legal mailing list, with the result that people like me
> who do not follow debian-legal are not aware of the situation, and,
> for the most, do not know the details of the issue involved.
> If the concerns of the people on debian-legal are shared by
> the developer body at large, we may have a potentially serious
> issue. The first step to determine this is making people aware of
> the issues involved. The next would be to see if we can reach a
> determination of the position the project at large want to take on
> this issue.
[...]
> Thanks for your patience. The URL of the document is:
> <URL:http://people.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml>
Great work. But if this is supposed to be read by all dds it should
have gone to -announce, shouldn't it?
cu and- followed the respective discussions on -legal for some
time, but it is just repeating itself over and over
now -reas
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