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Hi, |
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Had some more thoughts about that licensing issue and wanted to make some |
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suggestions. |
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I think the GPL-compatible set makes barely sense. The problem with it is, as |
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stated by various people, that we have different GPLs. GPL2 and 3 are |
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incompatible, so it doesn't mean "GPL-compatible" are all licenses that can be |
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mixed together. I don't know how/if we should resolve this. |
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Difference between OSI and FSF approved: AFAIK, I once read about one license |
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that OSI approved and FSF not. Do we have any affected packages in the tree |
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where FSF and OSI differ? I think the definitions of FSF and OSI are pretty |
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much the same, their differences are more on a political level, not on a |
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licensing one. So I'd like it much more to have one big "This is free and open |
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source software" set. |
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For documentation, we may want to have another set? I'll add one with the well |
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known free documentation licenses (FDL, CC by, cc by-sa). If we decide to go |
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some other way, we can throw it away, but I wanted to start something ;-) |
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What bites me is the man-pages issue. Is it really the case that there's no |
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free (as in freedom) man-pages package? Maybe then we should provide an option |
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to install the base system without man-pages? |
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