[DebianGIS-dev] [DebianGIS] Specific packages for SAR and earth observation
Francesco P. Lovergine
frankie at debian.org
Tue Dec 21 06:25:21 UTC 2010
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:32:51PM +0100, David Paleino wrote:
> > Unfortunately PDF files also include the user manual end the reference
> > documentation of functions the program provides.
> > The program GUI has a menu from which the user can select the document
> > to show (the document is displayed in the pdf-reder program).
> >
> > Sources of PDF documents are not provided so I think need to have PDFs
> > around.
>
> Then it can't go to Debian main. It can (maybe) go to non-free though.
>
> Please ask upstream to provide sources for those PDFs, or strip them from the
> tarball.
>
It is a common practice splitting in another source package the guilty
docs and providing them in non-free. Please, check possibly an adjoint
explicit license for documentation. Let me guess, they wrote documentation
in Word :-P ?
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Francesco P. Lovergine
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