Bug#105492: www.debian.org: installation documentation index advocates non-free software

[Colin Watson <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>]

Package: www.debian.org
Severity: normal

Hi,

http://www.debian.org/releases/2.2/i386/ (for example; other ports have
the same problem) strongly advocates the use of acroread, which is only
free as in beer:

   PDF documents may be viewed with the Adobe® Acrobat® reader, which is
   offered as a gratuity to the public by Adobe Corporation. There is
   both a standalone version and a web browser plug-in that you may
   download. It is very nice, and you will enjoy using the Linux version,
   installable as a Debian package. Please read these documents on your
   computer whenever possible, rather than printing them. PDF documents
   are searchable and have a clickable table of contents. The typesetting
   is publication quality. Save trees! Electrons recycle much more
   readily than paper products.

We should suggest the use of a free PDF viewer instead. There seem to be
several alternatives available:

  [cjw44@riva ~]$ grep-available -ev -FSection 'contrib|non-free' | \
  > grep-dctrl -nsPackage -FProvides pdf-viewer | sort
  gnome-gv
  gv
  kghostview
  xpdf

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]