Re: Bug#284219: please remove gnu-standards
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 09:34:20PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > Please remove the gnu-standards package (that I maintain). Its
> > use of the GNU FDL violates Debian's DFSG, so it cannot remain in
> > the distribution.
>
> I think it might be a good thing if you orphan this package before you
> ask for removal, especially as you (and we all) know that GFDL-docu is
> allowed in the upcoming release of sarge.
GR 2004-004 puts the new SC on hold since implementing it in full would
delay the release of Sarge for too long. All GFDL documentation must
eventually either be relicensed, rewritten or removed.
gnu-standards is obviously unlikely to be relicensed, and can't be rewritten
(it wouldn't be the GNU Standards). It will eventually be removed.
2004-004 is not "allow non-free documentation in main for Sarge; we
don't care"; it's "allow non-free documentation in main because we don't
have time before Sarge to deal with it all". In no way does it discourage
maintainers with the time and inclination to deal with it before Sarge
from doing so.
(I'd suggest that gnu-standards be moved to non-free, though, not removed.)
--
Glenn Maynard
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