Bug#131191: Documentation Survey (Complete)
"PM" == Peter Makholm <peter@makholm.net>
"CM" == Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>
CM> Since you did not find any explicitely non-free documents
CM> yet, I downgrade the bug to important until we find out
CM> more.
PM> When no explicite license is given we can't distribute the
PM> works. The
PM> Translation: if things are not explicitly free they are
PM> non-free and not the other way around. That's how
PM> copyright law works.
Yes, that's my interpretation, as well. I should have a better
idea of which files we'll need to pull by the end of the day.
There's at least one that states very clearly that we can't
distribute it (the French LaTeX FAQ). One actually is free (my
mistake). The others are still up in the air.
What's your (Peter's) take on documents that have a copyright
statement but no information about distribution? CTAN continues
to distribute many files with an ``unknown'' copyright status, but
I'm not sure what their justification for doing so is.
At some point we're going to have to get the debian-legal folks
involved, I think.
CMC
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Man cannot be civilised, or be kept civilised by what he does in his
spare time; only by what he does as his work.
W.R. Lethaby
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C.M. Connelly cmc@debian.org SHC, DS
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