I know you've done a lot of work towards it, but I honestly never saw much value in having the Zope Book in a Debian package. I really don't have time to go fight the licensing battle and I don't want to get mired down in obtaining permission from the various authors of the Book to change its license now just so it can be a Debian package. So I'm afraid "non-free" it will need to be for now, apologies. - C On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 08:53, Andreas Tille wrote:

Hi,

you might know that the "famous" Zope Book is available as Debian package to increase the comfort of the Debian users and to make this fine work pupular in the Debian world. You might have heard that there is some trouble with license of documentation in Debian and this trouble now has hit the Open Publication License and thus the Zope Book package. This is explained at

http://bugs.debian.org/266417

The problem is explained in Detail at

http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.html

to make clear why Debian can not distribute documentation with licenses which are not compliant to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. I have to admit that I personally do not really understand these issues and just do foreward this information to you. A short resume of it might be: Just put the documentation under the same license as the software.

The same is true for the Zope Development Guide:

http://bugs.debian.org/266414

So if you - especially the authors of the documentation - have certain reasons to stick to the license you have choosen, I would have to move these two packages to the non-free section of the Debian mirrors.

Kind regards and thanks for your attention

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