Hi all! :)
The Debian documentation policy[1] reads:
| All manuals of the Debian Documentation Project (DDP) will be released
| under DFSG-compliant licenses
On the other hand the APT HOWTO[2] is released under the GNU FDL.
Debian-legal consensus about the GFDL seems quite clear...
Should a bug be filed, in your opinion?
Among other things, the copyright notice[3] reads
| Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Gustavo Noronha Silva
|
| This manual is licensed under the terms of the GNU FDL (Free
| Documentation License). It has been written in the hope that it will
| be useful to the community but it comes with no warranty; use it at
| your own risk.
As you can see, no explicit declaration about unmodifiable parts
(Invariant Sections, Front/Back-cover Texts, ...).
This looks like an incorrect application of the GFDL...
Is this undistributable?
References:
[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/docpolicy
[2] http://packages.debian.org/unstable/doc/apt-howto
[3] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/index.en.html
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