Bug#303366: ITP: vimcdoc -- Chinese Translation of Vim Online Help Documents
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 01:50:48PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> On Wed, April 6, 2005 13:08, Carlos Z.F. Liu said:
> > * Package name : vimcdoc
>
> I misread this as "vimdoc". Wouldn't the conventions be to rather use a
> name like "vimdoc-cn"?
>
Yeah, I admit that the name isn't very beautiful. I have two choices,
vimdoc-cn and vimhelp-cn, because there is a vimhelp-fr already. :)
> > The Vimcdoc License, Version 0.1
>
> Perhaps you can try to convince upstream not to invent their own licence
> (which is also not free enough for main) but instead use one of the many
> other licences already available (see www.opensource.org/licenses).
> Preferably of course one that's DFSG-free.
>
Thanks. The upstream author is thinking about this issue. But I'd like
to package it first, and switch it to main if he choose a free license
in the future.
> It might be logical to use the same licence as is used by Vim itself: so
> you can be sure that if you can use Vim in some context you also can use
> vimcdoc.
>
VIM's user manual is OPL, already non-free.
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/usr_01.html#manual-copyright
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Best Regards,
Carlos
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