[scribus] the docs license

Oleksandr Moskalenko malex at scribus.net
Tue Apr 10 13:25:57 UTC 2012


On Apr 10, 2012, at 8:55 AM, Gregory Pittman wrote:

> On 04/10/2012 08:26 AM, a.l.e wrote:
>> 
>> so, the problem is not that one has to contribute back to scribus (which
>> could be done with a standard OPL license...
> 
> http://opencontent.org/openpub/
> 
> I don't see the OPL as being substantially different.
> 
> Greg

The placement of the doc package in the non-free Debian archive is not arbitrary. The optional OPL restriction on printing violates the DFSG (Debian Free Software Guidelines), which are not negotiable.

Regards,

Alex

Scribus Debian maintainer


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