From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA12935; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 10:35:56 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA12953 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 10:35:54 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mel-rto2.wanadoo.fr (smtp-out-2.wanadoo.fr [193.252.19.254]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g7P8ZsD11783 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 10:35:54 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mel-rta8.wanadoo.fr (193.252.19.79) by mel-rto2.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3D5392B6005B3985; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 10:35:50 +0200 Received: from iliana (80.9.106.53) by mel-rta8.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3D49FF79007DB925; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 10:35:50 +0200 Received: from luther by iliana with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17isvr-0000Cs-00; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 10:39:39 +0200 Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 10:39:39 +0200 To: Yang Shouxun Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml-doc non-free? Message-ID: <20020825083939.GA793@iliana> References: <3D678271.5070709@fltrp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D678271.5070709@fltrp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Sven LUTHER Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 08:56:17PM +0800, Yang Shouxun wrote: > Hi, > > can anybody enlighten me why ocaml-doc is non-free in Debian distribution? Because it fails many points of the DFSG, in particular, you have no right to modify it. That is how the authors want it, and so we can only distribute it in non-free, which is okay (altough i guess other documentation in debian also have this same problem and shouldbe moved out of main into non-free, i have not checked though). Also, anyway, we don't have the original source of the libs, only the produced stuff, so this is another point making it non-free. There are other stuff that are in the ocaml-doc package, or could be, that are non-free also, like the examples and other such. > Interestingly, vrms does not list it as a non-free package. What is vrms ? Anyway, much discution went into the move of ocaml-doc from main to non-free, you can look at the archives of debian-ocaml-maint@lists.debian.org to get an idea of some of them. Friendly, Sven Luther ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners