The LDP and Debian

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."

Comments

Go ahead, remove all the doc

[xant]

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.

Re:Go ahead, remove all the doc

[lupetto]

But I certainly don't trash talk a bunch of people who have given me more useful stuff out of sheer altruism in a day than I'll produce over a lifetime.

Well, I certainly won't dispute your lack of contribution.

But what has debian really contributed to the Linux community? Apt-get??? Maybe there is something really useful debian has made, but I certainly can't think of any right now. Please feel free to englighten me.

Stop being a typical linux sheep and start thinking for yourself. When you open your eyes you might come closer to seeing things the way they really are. Linux developers are motivated by money and ego, not "altruism".

It's just documentation

[the_rev_matt]

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

Answers, by the way, mods $3 crack

[Anonymous Coward]

On my favorite floppy disk ever, I have a small collection of text files and images.

For dinner, I shall eat Helper. No hamburger for me. Helper.

Go ahead, WASTE your moderation points on me

[Anonymous Coward]

You see, I enjoy using Linux on an encrypted floppy and connecting to Slashnet with a fake host and being instantly banned from #tron for having mirc, but it's funny because if you come in with the host @is.a.Hax0r people act like you have something to hide. really. What the hell?

The moderators smoke cheap $2.56 crack!!

So, when was the last time you OPEN SORES NATALIE PORTMAN GRITS HOT GRITS IN MY PANTS OH YES!

Debian sucks

[Anonymous Coward]

I used it on my 486 laptop computer once and the Taliban told me no.
No computer. No Debian. The Living Diaper Princesses (that is what is LDP is, correct?) will never find what seems to be on my 486 laptop. You know, HENTAI and oh GOD NATALIE PORTMAN HOT GRITS LINUX OPEN SORES

Re:Question about licenses...

[hardburn]

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.

This just In...Debian announces "YOB" license...

[Anonymous Coward]

Debian Licensing Issues
December 5, 2001

In response to the recent confusion regarding LDPL to FDL or OPL conversion; Debian has announced the "You Our Bitch License" (YOBL). The YOBL allows the Debian distribution team to take your formerly-released writings and modify it without credit to include in our distribution. This will ensure that in the future if we change the rules we can just take your name off, add a comma, and put someone elses name on it (known as the "Take the Fuck Out of the Equation" [T-FOE] clause). This new license is available to the documentation writers and will be appended shortly within the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG).