[Zope] Problem with License of Zope Book

[Chris McDonough]

I know you've done a lot of work towards it, but I honestly never saw
much value in having the Zope Book in a Debian package.  I really don't
have time to go fight the licensing battle and I don't want to get mired
down in obtaining permission from the various authors of the Book to
change its license now just so it can be a Debian package.  So I'm
afraid "non-free" it will need to be for now, apologies.

- C

On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 08:53, Andreas Tille wrote:

> 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.
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