Hi!
I've been asked by the debian release team to look into this bug and see
what
can be done to have a successful resolution... The situation seems to be
this
one:
1) maxdb-doc is a package which contains some GPL licensed html manual
files
2) the GPL asks for the source code (defined as: "preferred form of the
work for
making modifications to it") to be available
3) the html files are determined to be automatically generated by a tool
called
"SAP Html Export", and the files which originate them are not available
This sounds like as if the content was in some weird format before,
maybe a database with SAP frontend? If this is true, the first thing
you'd do if you want to maintain *and* distribute the content as part of
some software would be to export it from that database. Not only
because the database is non-free, but also because it doesn't seem like
a preferred form of modification if you want to edit documentation, and
if you want it to be packaged in a tar.gz.
If this is true, I don't see why this is necessarily "missing source".
Where the files exported a long time ago, and are now maintained as html
files? Or are they newly exported every release?