Re: Gnus Manual License
Jérôme Marant wrote:
> Why was the gnus manual removed from the gnus package?
>
> According to its license, it does not have any invariant section:
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> Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
> under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
> any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
> Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover texts being ``A GNU
> Manual'', and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below. A copy of the
> license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation
> License'' in the Emacs manual.
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-
>
> so it perfectly fits in main.
The Cover Texts count as unmodifiable sections, since they cannot be
changed nor removed. Therefore, the manual has to go to non-free
(along with most GNU documentation, for the same reason).
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