Bug#693885: src:mathgl: non-free files in main (GFDL with Back/Front Cover Text)

Sébastien Villemot sebastien at debian.org
Wed Nov 21 18:09:21 UTC 2012


Control: tags -1 + confirmed upstream

Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar at debian.org> writes:

> Source: mathgl
> Version: 1.11.2-14
> Severity: serious
> Control: found -1 2~rc1-3
>
> Files: texinfo/*
> Copyright: (C) 2008 Alexey Balakin <mathgl.abalakin at gmail.com>
> License: GFDL-1.2+
>  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 the freedom to
>  copy and modify this GNU manual.  Buying copies from the FSF
>  supports it in developing GNU and promoting software freedom.''
>
> The GFDL is only free without Invariant Sections and without Front- and
> Back-Cover Texts.

Looks like we have to strip the manual from the package, unless upstream
(quickly) agrees to remove the front- and back-cover texts.

Dimitrios: how do you plan to proceed?

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