On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 08:30:53PM +0100, Nicholas Bamber wrote: > The package maintainer wants the following stanza > Copyright: (C) 1995-1998, 2000, 2003-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > License: GFDL-1.1+ > 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, with the Front-Cover texts being ``A GNU Manual,'' > and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below. > . > On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU Free Documentation License > version 1.2 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL-1.2'. Thanks for providing the specifics. IMHO this is perfectly fine as-is. We are correctly pointing to a license text in /usr/share/common-licenses which matches the terms under which the work is being distributed (Debian uses GFDL 1.2 only, not 1.1), and we are complying with the original license terms. I don't see any reason to include a copy of, or even provide a pointer to, an older buggy license which we're not using. I also wouldn't have a problem with it if the maintainer were to replace '1.1' with '1.2' in the license declaration, fwiw. I don't know whether a clarification in policy is needed to cover this. (I don't think it's a syntactic question, so doesn't really belong in DEP-5.) Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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