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GFDL 1.1



Dear all

Software in question: GnomeSword
Software licence: GPL v2 or (at your option) any later

The documentation (Gnome Help file) is covered by GFDL 1.1 with no
invariant sections and a disclaimer.[1]

I want to clarify that it still qualifies for the staying in Main. I've googled a lot about
Debian and GFDL 1.2 but I'm a bit confused if the Debian resolution applies
to GFDL 1.1 as well.

It also puzzles me that
GFDL 1.1 is not present in /usr/share/common-licenses/
And the proposed copyright format doesn't have GFDL-1.1 tag either (only v1.2)

I'm member of the Crosswire packaging team and we are working on the new upsream
release and hoping to get it into Jaunty and upload to Debian after Lenny (due to dependencies).

Please help me to understand if this software with this documentation is DFSG
compliant.

[1] This is legal notice of the help file.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the
terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), Version 1.1 or any later
version published by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sections, no
Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  You can find a copy of the GFDL at
this link or in the file COPYING-DOCS distributed with this manual.

This manual is part of a collection of GNOME manuals distributed under the GFDL.
If you want to distribute this manual separately from the collection, you can do
so by adding a copy of the license to the manual, as described in section 6 of
the license.

Many of the names used by companies to distinguish their products and services
are claimed as trademarks. Where those names appear in any GNOME documentation,
and the members of the GNOME Documentation Project are made aware of those
trademarks, then the names are in capital letters or initial capital letters.

DOCUMENT AND MODIFIED VERSIONS OF THE DOCUMENT ARE PROVIDED UNDER THE TERMS OF
THE GNU FREE DOCUMENTATION LICENSE WITH THE FURTHER UNDERSTANDING THAT:

DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER
EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES THAT THE
DOCUMENT OR MODIFIED VERSION OF THE DOCUMENT IS FREE OF DEFECTS MERCHANTABLE,
FIT FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGING. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE
QUALITY, ACCURACY, AND PERFORMANCE OF THE DOCUMENT OR MODIFIED VERSION OF THE
DOCUMENT IS WITH YOU. SHOULD ANY DOCUMENT OR MODIFIED VERSION PROVE DEFECTIVE IN
ANY RESPECT, YOU (NOT THE INITIAL WRITER, AUTHOR OR ANY CONTRIBUTOR) ASSUME THE
COST OF ANY NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION. THIS DISCLAIMER OF
WARRANTY CONSTITUTES AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THIS LICENSE. NO USE OF ANY DOCUMENT
OR MODIFIED VERSION OF THE DOCUMENT IS AUTHORIZED HEREUNDER EXCEPT UNDER THIS
DISCLAIMER; AND

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES AND UNDER NO LEGAL THEORY, WHETHER IN TORT (INCLUDING
NEGLIGENCE), CONTRACT, OR OTHERWISE, SHALL THE AUTHOR, INITIAL WRITER, ANY
CONTRIBUTOR, OR ANY DISTRIBUTOR OF THE DOCUMENT OR MODIFIED VERSION OF THE
DOCUMENT, OR ANY SUPPLIER OF ANY OF SUCH PARTIES, BE LIABLE TO ANY PERSON FOR
ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY
CHARACTER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF GOODWILL, WORK
STOPPAGE, COMPUTER FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION, OR ANY AND ALL OTHER DAMAGES OR
LOSSES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO USE OF THE DOCUMENT AND MODIFIED VERSIONS
OF THE DOCUMENT, EVEN IF SUCH PARTY SHALL HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH DAMAGES.

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With best regards


Ледков Дмитрий Юрьевич

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