Re: [bug-gtypist] Fwd: Bug#695777: gtypist: includes non-free documentation (GFDL with unmodifiable sections)

[Tim Marston]

Hi Ben,

On 12/12/12 17:35, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> gtypist includes cover texts in the doc, with no permission granted to
> remove them, which Debian's DFSG forbids. Could that be changed, please?
> I'd rather not have to strip the doc from the package.

Understood.  I have asked higher up and it seems that, since GNU don't
publish the gtypist manual on paper, it would be OK for us to remove the
invariant section of the licence.  So the licence would become:

  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
  under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
  any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
  Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
  Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
  ``GNU Free Documentation License''.

Apparently, removing the invariant section of the licence is enough to
satisfy Debian's policy.

Can you confirm this?  And I will make the appropriate changes.

-- 
Tim Marston
ed.am