csound manual

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 03:34:18PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 17:19, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 07:44:31PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:34:05PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:00, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:16:07AM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> The page lists the complicated history of the manual. The 
>>>>>> important part is that the licensing was some non commercial 
>>>>>> license, and MIT held the rights to change that (Barry Vercoe et 
>>>>>> al were working at MIT while developing csound and the manual). 
>>>>>> Finally the licensing was changed to GFDL, and the manual moved 
>>>>>> to a sourceforge CVS repository, where the current development is 
>>>>>> still done. There is no way we can track who did what change to 
>>>>>> which file, but the best we can do is expand the "Andres Cabrera 
>>>>>> and others" to a list of 35 names and still have the "and 
>>>>>> others".
>>>>>
>>>>> I think at least we should document the situation in 
>>>>> debian/copyright, then.  Not needed to include all history, only 
>>>>> status quo is relevant (if possible without laying it all out)
>>>>
>>>> How to do that in the dep5 format?
>>
>> [Whoops, I forgot to comment on the above...]
>>
>> DEP-5 mandates some sections and the naming of those mandated 
>> sections.  Trick is, it permits other fields too, and does not even 
>> (in most recent drafts) limit those to e.g. X-* names.  The idea is, 
>> I believe (and I think it is even mentioned in the specification - 
>> too lazy to check right now) is perhaps some unofficial add-on 
>> sections becomes common practice and can then easily (i.e. without 
>> need of updating existing files using it) be adopted in a later 
>> release of the specs.
>>
>> See e.g. the moin package for how I currently do unofficial tags 
>> similar to what might be done here.
>
>We only have detailed copyright information for the few scripts we 
>already have documented. What do you propose to do? Expand the Andres 
>Cabrera and others into the 35 or so names (and others)?

Whatever it is that you believe makes this package DFSG-free, document 
that.

Above you argue to me that the concrete names are not the important 
part, but the story is.  Do not explain to me, but to the world.


Regards,

  - Jonas

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