Handling of GNU free documentation licence in Debian

[Elias Oltmanns <oltmanns@uni-bonn.de>]

Hi all,

currently, the gnus package in unstable is shipped without
documentation because it's been released under the GNU free
documentation licence and thus isn't compatible with Debian licencing,
as I understand it. Emacs itself, however, is packaged including its
documentation which is provided under the fdl too. So, the obvious
question is: What's the difference and what would be the proper
solution for the gnus package? Would, as a last resort, a seperate
package gnus-doc in non-free be an appropriate solution? GNU stuff in
non-free seems rather strange but would be funny anyway.

Regards,

Elias