[Zope] Problem with License of Zope Book

[Andreas Tille]

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.