[Fsf-Debian] GNU Emacs docs (and GCC and others) are not DFSG free

[Bryan Quigley]

Hi all,

I re-stumbled upon what I think does the worst disservice to both
Debian and the FSF.  The company I work for enabled nonfree on some
machines solely for the purposes of getting GNU Emacs documentation.
I'm guessing many other have done this as well.

I do not believe the Wikipedia modifications to the license have any
effect on this [1].

I would argue that the attribution clause (in
CC-Attribution-ShareAlike and the like) and the FSF website should
have the affect desired, in spreading the core principles of free
software, etc.

Thoughts?
Bryan

Relevant pages:
[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3-faq.html
http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml
http://wiki.debian.org/NonFreeTrackingSystem/SourcePackage/emacs22-non-dfsg