Re: Debian and the GFDL problem

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 19:41 +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote:

> As many might be aware, the Debian project has been concerned about the
> non-freeness of the GNU Free Documentation Licence for a few years
> already, and although conversations with the Free Software Foundation
> have been ongoing for at least four years, we don't know if our
> legal advise to the FSF will end up in a new GFDL version being
> published that addresses the problems in time for the new Debian
> release.

It is up to Debian to follow up with the FSF on creating a new version
of the GFDL which addresses Debian's concerns.

It is also up to Debian to contact and negotiate with every individual
author of documentation which happens to have a problematic license.

  Federico