Re: Request to use DFSG as a model document

Francesco Poli <[email protected]> Tue, 25 Mar 2025 12:09:38 +0100

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On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:57:05 +0100 Michael Stehmann wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> IMO the person you have to ask is the Debian Project Lead.
[...]

I am not too convinced that the Debian Project Leader can grant or
refuse any special permission to make a derivative work of the document
describing the DFSG.

The current (well, not really current... last known update on 2015...)
[status] of the Debian web site relicensing seems to be that many
contributors have agreed to relicense their own contributions under
Expat/GPLv2+ dual terms.
However, I do not know whether the copyright holders of the Debian [SC]
and DFSG have replied and agreed to the relicensing.

I have recently [asked] for a status update, but no replies yet.

Hence, I would say that the persons to be asked are the copyright
holders for the [SC] document.
Both version 1.0 ratified on July 5, 1997 and version 1.1 ratified on
April 26th, 2004 (since the current version has been ratified on
October 1st, 2022, which is after 2012, when it was [clarified] that all
new contributions to the Debian web site would be considered available
under Expat/GPLv2+ dual terms).

So the first step, in my humble opinion, would be to identify all the
copyright owners for the [SC] document versions 1.0 and 1.1 ...

[status]: <https://bugs.debian.org/388141#378>
[SC]: <https://www.debian.org/social_contract>
[asked]: <https://bugs.debian.org/614497#63>
[clarified]: <https://www.debian.org/license>

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