Hi Odin,
I am taking over maintainership of oidentd in Debian and there is an
open bug report concerning the GFDL licensing of the man pages in doc/
[1]. The problem is that the wording is ambigious; the GFDL specifies
how to remove the limitations of invariant sections and front- and
back-cover texts [2].
The Debian project has had a long discussion about the GFDL in general,
with the result being that GFDL-licensed work with no invariant sections
is ok for Debian main [3]. Yet, the GFDL appears to impose difficulties
for the distribtion of work, so I tend to dislike it a lot.
In any case, the bug report at [1] is reasonable, and I kindly ask you
to accept one of the following solutions, ordered by my personal
preference descendingly ;):
a) relicense the man pages under a different license, e.g. CC-BY-SA-3.0,
MIT, BSD, …
b) relicense under GFDL-1.3 *and* use the official wording [2]
c) keep the current license, but update to the official wording [2]
Please note that the decision must not be specific to Debian, but a
general license grant.
Looking forward to your feedback,
Nik
[1]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=712393
[2]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.1.html#SEC4
[3]: http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001
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