discuss: licensing issue
Subject:
Re: licensing issue
From:
Poet/Joshua Drake ####@####.####
Date:
4 Dec 2001 18:03:25 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0112041102270.22978-100000@commandprompt.com>
Hello,
As unfortunate as it is that debian is choosing to do this, I am surprised
it took them this long. All of our documents haven't been "free" in years.
J
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, David Merrill wrote:
>The Debian project is having a flame-fest about licensing issues.
>They are going to split the LDP into a free and a non-free package.
>This means the majority of the LDP will not be available on the
>base Debian system.
>
>I'm trying to get as many documents moved over to GFDL as I can before
>the freeze for Woody comes. I ask for all of your cooperation in
>helping me do this. The freeze comes on December 8, although some
>things can be passed through after that, especially stuff like
>documentation which isn't likely to break the system.
>
>I'm also finding a hell of a lot of dead emails and marking those
>documents unmaintained in the database. I'll post a list of those in
>each week's LDPWN in the hope we'll find some maintainers for them.
>
>
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