[Zope] Problem with License of Zope Book
Chris McDonough
chrism at plope.com
Wed Aug 25 09:14:39 EDT 2004
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
>
> Andreas.
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