Bug#695790: readline5: includes non-free documentation (GFDL with unmodifiable sections)
Source: readline5
Version: 5.2-12
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.2.1
Usertags: gfdl
Some files in doc/ have the following license:
| Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
| under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 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.''
|
| (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
--
Jakub Wilk
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