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Bug#724474: marked as done (ITP: grub-legacy-doc -- Documentation for GRUB Legacy)

Your message dated Thu, 6 Nov 2014 17:03:35 +0000
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and subject line Re: Bug#708946: GFDL documentation with front and back cover
has caused the Debian Bug report #724474,
regarding ITP: grub-legacy-doc -- Documentation for GRUB Legacy
to be marked as done.

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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

* Package name    : grub-legacy-doc
  Version         : 0.97
  Upstream Author : bug-grub@gnu.org
* URL             : http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-legacy.html
* License         : GFDL
  Description     : Documentation for GRUB Legacy

http://bugs.debian.org/708946 reports that the GRUB Legacy info
documentation is non-free due to the use of the GFDL 1.2 with
Front-Cover and Back-Cover Texts (cf.
http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001).  The GRUB 2 info
documentation does not have this problem; but GRUB Legacy is
aggressively in maintenance mode and I do not expect to get upstream
approval to adjust its licensing.

I think the most practical resolution involving spending the least
effort on GRUB Legacy is to split off its documentation into a source
package in non-free.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]

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On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 05:14:22PM +0200, bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> Grub documentation doc/grub.texi is not free. 
> 
> Please free grub.

I started working on a grub-legacy-doc package today (#724474) and
discovered something amusing.  The licence change to the FDL was
actually introduced *after* 0.97, and pulled into the Debian package by
way of a CVS sync!  This was even fixed previously in 0.97-12, but I
think this was then reverted in 0.97-60 when the packaging switched to
Bazaar branching.

Rather than introducing a new source package for this, I'm therefore
just going to revert these patches again.  Whee.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]

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