Source: gdb
Version: 7.4.1-3
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.2.1
Usertags: gfdl

readline/doc/ contains the GNU Readline Library documentation, with the following license:
| Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
| under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 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 are free to copy and modify
| this GNU manual.  Buying copies from GNU Press supports the FSF in
| developing GNU and promoting software freedom.''

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

I didn't check other Texinfo documents included in the package; they might have similar license problems.

--
Jakub Wilk


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