On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:12:27 -0700 Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote: > Ricardo Mones <mones@debian.org> writes: > > Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote: > > >> For example: > >> > >> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba2/book/toc.html > >> > >> has the GFDL appended to the book, but I see no explicit statement that > >> the book is actually under the GFDL and, if so, what if any invariant > >> sections there are. Without that information, it's impossible to tell > >> if the package can go in main or non-free. > > > I think you choose a bad example :) in the same book, preface page [0], > > one can read: > > > | Appendix G is the copyright license under which this book is > > | published. > > > and, "Appendix G" is linked to the GFDL. > > > regards, > > > [0] http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba2/book/ch00.html > > Ah, I missed that. But that still is broken. That is not a valid way of > applying the GFDL to a work. See the GFDL for more details, but basically > it omits statements about whether there are Invariant Sections, > Front-Cover Texts, or Back-Cover Texts, which we would need to know. Maybe I'm missing something (and surely drifting off-topic) but appended GFDL [0] reads (point 1, paragraph 4th): | The Document may contain zero Invariant Sections. If the Document does | not identify any Invariant Sections then there are none. Isn't that enough? regards, [0] http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba2/book/appg.html -- Ricardo Mones http://people.debian.org/~mones «Change your thoughts and you change your world.»
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