Bug#630149: perlembed.pod and perlmodinstall.pod contain invariant sections

[Niko Tyni]

Package: perl
Version: 5.12.3-7

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:50:24AM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
> Am 21.05.2011 08:37, schrieb Niko Tyni:

> > I'm a bit uneasy with the licensing of 
> >  pod/perlembed.pod
> >  pod/perlmodinstall.pod
> > which seems to imply that the document title (and, less importantly,
> > author information) is an invariant section that can't be modified.
> > 
> > Is this something that needs to be fixed? Please note that it's been
> > like this since at least 1998, so this is not a regression.

> >   Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
> >   documentation under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided also
> >   that they are marked clearly as modified versions, that the authors'
> >   names and title are unchanged (though subtitles and additional
> >   authors' names may be added), and that the entire resulting derived
> >   work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical
> >   to this one.

> Hmmm... I don't think the restriction of the author is a problematic;
> it's quite similar to restrictions regarding license header and a like.
>  However, the title restriction is different, and does has practical
> affects (e.g. when translating a document).  Could you please ask
> upstream, to drop that restriction?  We don't consider it a big problem
> (hence I accepted it), but it would be nice to be solved, though.

Filing a bug so we don't forget this.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org