On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:14:20 +0200 Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: [...] > Speaking of the current state sadly means to confess, that our hopes to > draw a lot of help from the community by using a system for drafting the > news with a low entry barrier were not fulfilled. We actually had a > good start, with good participation, but due to (I assume) the > aforementioned initial difficulties participation in the creation of the > DPN dropped considerably. One deterrent I see (among other things) is the following: there's no clear licensing info on the wiki pages and the finalized DPN issues (http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/) are published under the terms of the OPL license, like the rest of http://www.debian.org The OPL does not meet the DFSG: I am not even going to see if I can find time to contribute to non-free documents (you know: life is too short to deal with proprietary software!) ... This problem is obviously related to bugs #238245 and #388141. These bugs should really be solved. Can we at least start by changing the license of future DPN issues? I would strongly recommend to gain consensus on the license to be chosen for http://www.debian.org (2-clause-BSD or GPLv2 have been proposed and I would be happy with this choice) and then start to at least adopt this license for future DPN issues. P.S.: Please Cc: me on replies, as I am not a list subscriber. Thanks. -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/index.html#nanodocs The nano-document series is here! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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