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

[Loic J. Duros]

The "General Resolution: Why the GNU Free Documentation License is not 
suitable for Debian Main"[1] has the following point in the Amendment 
Text A:

    At the same time, we also consider that works licensed under the GNU
    Free Documentation License that include no invariant sections do
    fully meet the requirements of the Debian Free Software Guidelines.

Do all the manuals released under the GFDL and present in nonfree have 
an invariant clause? Personally, I don't want to enable nonfree just to 
get a few info files on Debian, so instead I usually download them from 
gnu.org. If no compromise is possible to bring them back to main,  maybe 
it would be possible to move them from nonfree to elsewhere such as a 
new location solely dedicated to documentation released under the GFDL? 
This way it would allow people like me to get access to this 
documentation without having to open the door to all the rest of nonfree 
software.

[1] http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001

Thanks,

Loic Duros
lduros at gnu.org

On 07/09/2012 05:04 AM, Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> Grant H. wrote:
>> and the ideal goal is: "an agreed upon list of Debian "bugs" that need
>> to be solved, according to the usual Debian mechanisms, and with no
>> special treatment due to their "political" origin."
>>
>> In short this project (as I understand it) is about making debian more
>> free and addressing some of the freedom issues the FSF raises. Not the
>> other way around.  We are addressing issues with Debian not with GNU
>> packages/documentation.
>
> This discussion is about bringing Debian and the FSF closer together. 
> As the DPL, Stefano talked about what Debian can do. If the outcome of 
> this discussion is that the FSF can do something as well, and they'd 
> be happy to do it, then why shouldn't they? I'd feel bad if this 
> discussion comes down to (or is interpreted as) the FSF making demands 
> and Debian doing all the work/compromising to fulfill them.
>
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