Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>:
Bug#10286; Package perl.   debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.orgDarren Stalder <torin@daft.com>  Sorry, this message was lost when this bug report was restored from a backup.   Acknowledgement sent to "J.H.M. Dassen" <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>.   "J.H.M. Dassen" <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl>  Sorry, this message was lost when this bug report was restored from a backup.   Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 2 Jun 1997 06:23:45 +0000 Received: (qmail 15916 invoked from network); 2 Jun 1997 06:23:43 -0000 Received: from penguin.wi.leidenuniv.nl (HELO penguin) (0@132.229.128.117) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 2 Jun 1997 06:23:43 -0000 Received: by penguin id m0wXmxG-001FUIC (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Sat, 31 May 1997 14:08:18 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970531140818.01811@penguin.wi.leidenuniv.nl> Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 14:08:18 +0200 From: "J.H.M. Dassen" To: submit@bugs.debian.org Subject: perl: perl FAQ is non-free Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.74 Organization: SEIS group, CS dept., Leiden University X-System: Debian GNU/Linux 1.3, kernel 2.0.30 Package: perl Version: 5.004-1 From perlfaq(1p): |Copyright (c) 1997 Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington. All rights |reserved. | |Noncommercial Reproduction | |Permission is granted to distribute this document, in part or in full, via |electronic means or printed copy providing that (1) that all credits and |copyright notices be retained, (2) that no charges beyond reproduction be |involved, This is not the case for Debian CDs; they may for instance be in a package deal with consultancy contracts. |and (3) that a reasonable attempt be made to use the most current version |available. | |Furthermore, you may include this document in any distribution of the full |Perl source or binaries, in its verbatim documentation, or on a complete |dump of the CPAN archive, providing that the three stipulations given above |continue to be met. As Debian CDs may involve charges surpassing reproduction costs, we unfortunately fall under the case of |Commercial Reproduction | |Requests for all other distribution rights, including the incorporation in |part or in full of this text or its code into commercial products such as |but not limited to books, magazine articles, or CD-ROMs, must be made to |perlfaq-legal@perl.com. Any commercial use of any portion of this document |without prior written authorization by its authors will be subject to |appropriate action. From Debian policy manual 2.1.3.3: |2.2 non-free Section | | Packages | * whose copyright permission notices (or patent problems) do not | allow distribution and copying for profit, no matter how large or | small the amount is, or [...] | may only be placed in the semi-supported non-free section of the | Debian FTP archives. This unfortunately means that the perl FAQ will have to be dropped from the main distribution. Please contact the FAQ authors, and explain them why the FAQ cannot go into our main distribution, and what the consequences of that are (the FAQ being excluded by most CD-ROM vendors). Hopefully, they'll reconsider these restrictive copying restrictions, and put it under the same terms as perl itself (thus virtually ensuring that every system with perl on it will have the FAQ too) or other free terms. After all, the goal of a FAQ is to disseminate information as much as possible (and thus improve the signal-to-noise ratio of related newsgroups/mailing lists). You might want to quote perlfaq1(1p) on "Why is it free?". -- System Information Debian Release: 1.3 Kernel Version: Linux penguin.wi.leidenuniv.nl 2.0.30 #9 Sat Apr 12 16:41:04 CEST 1997 i586 unknown Versions of the packages perl depends on: ldso Version: 1.9.2-3 libc5 Version: 5.4.23-4 libdb1 Version: 1.85.4-3 libgdbm1 Version: 1.7.3-19 -- Ray Dassen