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Re: Please comment the license of vim manual and reference



On Aug 21, "Carlos Z.F. Liu" <carlosliu@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> I found this problem in vim's English manual when I tried[1] to package
> the Chinese translation of vim documents. To know the problem, just
> type ":help manual-copyright" in vim editor. It clearly states that the
> Vim user manual and reference manual are using Open Publication License,
> v1.0 or later which is considered[2] as DFSG-incompatible. They use
I do not think that this is obvious. The objections reported in the
message you cited do not appear to be clearly justified by the DFSG
(when they are not totally bogus, as in the reference to the "dissident
test" which was popular a few years ago).

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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