Bug#695704: autoconf2.59: includes non-free documentation (GFDL with unmodifiable sections)
Source: autoconf2.59
Version: 2.59-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.2.1
Usertags: gfdl
doc/autoconf.* has the following license:
| Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
| document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
| Version 1.1 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."
|
| (a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: "You have freedom to copy and
| modify this GNU Manual, like GNU software. Copies published by
| the Free Software Foundation raise funds for GNU development."
As per GR 2006-001, works licensed under GFDL with unmodifiable sections
are not suitable for main:
http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001
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Jakub Wilk
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