I sent the following message to my sponsor, but haven't heard back yet. I welcome any assistance anyone can provide. Thanks, Richard > On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 12:06 +0000, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > rejected, you missed to mention the difference of the license in help/* > > Also you need to find out if its ok to go in main with that license, see the vote > > on GFDL. > > As you can see, gbonds was rejected. I did a Google search and found the > vote on the GFDL, and it seems to be mostly about invariant sections. > > I added a note about the license to the copyright file. The file now > looks like this: > > ----- > This package was debianized by Richard Laager <rlaager@wiktel.com> on > Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:34:33 -0500. > > It was downloaded from http://gbonds.sourceforge.net/download/ > > Copyright Holder: Jim Evins <evins@snaught.com> > > License: > > This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or > (at your option) any later version. > > This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, > but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of > MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the > GNU General Public License for more details. > > You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License > along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software > Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA > > On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General > Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'. > > The documentation in the help directory is licensed as follows: > > Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this > document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, > 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. A copy of the license can be found in the file > COPYING-DOCS which shipped as part of this package. > ----- > > Is that the right way to deal with it? > > Now, is that license acceptable for Debian? If not, what can I do? Do I > make a gbonds-doc binary package and ship it in non-free? Do I need to > pull the help directory even from the source package? > > Thanks, > Richard >
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