On 01/03/2018 03:53 PM, Tom Callaway wrote:
On 12/31/2017 04:53 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Should Fedora distribute content under the Ocaml documentation license?
>
> The license says:
>
> “
> The present documentation is copyright © 2013 Institut National de
> Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA). The OCaml
> documentation and user’s manual may be reproduced and distributed in
> whole or in part, subject to the following conditions:
>
> • The copyright notice above and this permission notice must be
> preserved complete on all complete or partial copies.
> • Any translation or derivative work of the OCaml documentation and
> user’s manual must be approved by the authors in writing before
> distribution.
> • If you distribute the OCaml documentation and user’s manual in part,
> instructions for obtaining the complete version of this manual must be
> included, and a means for obtaining a complete version provided.
> • Small portions may be reproduced as illustrations for reviews or
> quotes in other works without this permission notice if proper citation
> is given.
> ”
>
> For program source code, this would clearly not be allowed because
> derivative works are not permitted. Are such restrictions permitted for
> documentation licenses in Fedora?
No. The restrictions upon modification make this non-free, and we have
never permitted non-free documentation in Fedora.
Thanks, I filed:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1530647
Florian