Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] stubdom/grub.patches: Drop docs changes, for licensing reasons

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@xxxxxxxxxx>]

George Dunlap, le mar. 18 sept. 2018 14:52:11 +0100, a ecrit:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 2:36 PM Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The patch file 00cvs is an import of a new upstream version of
> > grub1 from upstream CVS.
> >
> > Unfortunately, in the period covered by the update, upstream changed
> > the documentation licence from a simple permissive licence, to the GNU
> > "Free Documentation Licence" with Front and Back Cover Texts.
> >
> > The Debian Project is of the view that use the Front and Back Cover
> > Texts feature of the GFDL makes the resulting document not Free
> > Software, because of the mandatory redistribution of these immutable
> > texts.  (Personally, I agree.)
> >
> > This is awkward because Debian do not want to ship non-free content.
> > So the Debian maintainers need to launder the upstream source code, to
> > remove the troublesome files.  This is an extra step when
> > incorporating new upstream versions.  It's particularly annoying for
> > security response, which often involves rebasing onto a new upstream
> > release.
> >
> > grub1 is obsolete and the last change to Xen's PV grub1 stubdom code
> > was in 2016.  Furthermore, the grub1 documentation is not built and
> > installed by the Xen pv-grub stubdom Makefiles.
> >
> > Therefore, remove all docs changes from stubdom/grub.patches.  This
> > means that there are now no longer any GFDL-licenced grub docs in
> > xen.git.
> >
> > There is no user impact, and Debian is helped.  This change would
> > complicate any attempts to update to a new version of upstream grub1,
> > but it seems unlikely that such a thing will ever happen.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This all seems reasonable to me:
> 
> Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>

Just the same :)

Acked-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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