Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> writes:

> But I saw a message implying that Debian does not consider emacs
> documentation free (!?!?), so the info files may be in
> emacs23-common-non-dfsg in this case.

The FSF isn't the only one caring about "Freedom".
Where more than one entity exists, they are bound to disagree sometimes :).


,----[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFSG#GFDL ]
| Much documentation written by the GNU Project, the Linux Documentation
| Project and others licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License
| contain invariant sections, which do not comply with the DFSG. This
| assertion is the end result of a long discussion and the General
| Resolution 2006-001.[11]
| 
| Due to the GFDL invariant sections, content under this license must be
| separately contained in an additional "non-free" repository which is not
| officially considered part of Debian.
`----

hth
Memnon


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