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 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux stonewall 2.4.20-k7 #1 Tue Jan 14 00:29:06 EST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 -- Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx> 0x560553e7 "Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all." --Douglas Adams
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