Ubuntu's notion of free documentation ?

[Siggy Brentrup]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:58 +0200, Florian Diesch wrote:
> Siggy Brentrup <ubuntu at psycho.i21k.de> writes:
> 
> > Hi List,
> >
> > catching up to current status in the OSS World (my TO: 5y), I'd like
> > to know what's Ubuntu's position is regarding the GFDL, do you follow
> > Debian who deemed it as devil's work around '04 
> 
> They don't, but they consider documentation that contains parts you are
> not allowed to change to not meet the DFSG. It was in 2006, see
> <http://www.debian.org/News/2006/20060316.html>

This was one of my last actions for Debian:

neon (0.24.5.dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Drop FDL documentation from .orig.tar.gz appending .dfsg to upstream
    version for a source upload.
  * Drop DFSG violating libneon24-doc binary package and conflict with it.

 -- Siggy Brentrup <bsb at debian.org>  Tue, 27 Apr 2004 12:22:08 +0200

You may be correct regarding a final decision, remembering discussions that
led to this action, I'm quite sure a term like "devil's work" was used.

> > or do you accept immutable parts in Documentation?
> >
> > I read
> >   http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/licensing
> >
> > and although not explicitely mentioned I understand that GFDLed docs
> > may go into main.
> 
> Yes, see e.g. aspell-doc

Fine, good to know.

Regards
  Siggy
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