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From: "Brian M. Carlson" <karlsson@hal-pc.org>
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Subject: general: many info files have license conflicts
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Package: general
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-03-05
Severity: serious
Tags: upstream
Justification: Policy 2.1
Most GNU manuals are under some form of the GNU Free Documentation
License (the freeness of which is debatable). However, those manuals are
in Texinfo format. The first line of every Texinfo file is:
\input texinfo
which includes texinfo.tex. If you look at texinfo.tex with
head -20 `dpkg -L texinfo | grep 'texinfo\.tex'
you will find that texinfo.tex is under the GNU General Public License,
which is incompatible with the GFDL. Hence the bug. This affects any
manual in Texinfo format that is under the GFDL or any other
GPL-incompatible license.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
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> Most GNU manuals are under some form of the GNU Free Documentation
> License (the freeness of which is debatable). However, those manuals are
> in Texinfo format. The first line of every Texinfo file is:
> \input texinfo
> which includes texinfo.tex. If you look at texinfo.tex with
> head -20 `dpkg -L texinfo | grep 'texinfo\.tex'
> you will find that texinfo.tex is under the GNU General Public License,
This needs to be taken up with upstream to see if it's an actual problem,
and what solutions are possible.
Bug closed with this message.
Cheers,
aj
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