The LDP and Debian

Posted by michael on Thursday December 6, 2001 @05:31AM from the documentation-always-a-weak-spot dept.

Guylhem writes: "The former LDP license was the first license used for our documentation. While we are now recommending the GNU FDL and the OPL 1 without options A or B, many documents are still licensed under the LDPL. David Merril, our Collection Coordinator, noticed that the LDPL is "not free" according to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. We have to get in touch with the authors as soon as possible or 2/3 of the LDP document collection will be removed from the base Debian distribution because the code freeze is happening in 2 days. Maybe some of the LDP unreachable authors are reading slashdot and could take 1 minute to submit an updated document licensed under the FDL or OPL v1 -A -B ? Another solution is to find volunteers to rewrite from scratch the concerned documents."

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Go ahead, remove all the doc by xant · 2001-12-06 05:34 · Score: 0, Troll

So, 2 days before a freeze, you notice this problem, and you're just going to remove all the doc rather than release it anyway? If you were a company, I'd be selling stock.

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It's just documentation by the_rev_matt · 2001-12-06 05:42 · Score: 1, Troll

What if I just use a sufficiently free app without reading the insufficiently free documentation? Am I still OK?

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Re:Question about licenses... by hardburn · 2001-12-06 05:55 · Score: 1, Troll

I've read all the most commonly used licenses under the Open Source Inititave (GPL, LGPL, Artistic, BSD, etc.), but I almost never read propreity licenses. Even the GPL's leagalees looks tame in comparison.

Oh, and I also check the terms of service for DNS providers, but almost never for other places.

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