Package: texlive-math-extra
Version: 2015.20160320-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.2.1

Hello and thanks for maintaining TeX Live in Debian!

I noticed that binary package texlive-math-extra includes, among
other LaTeX packages, sympytexpackage. This is very useful, thanks
for including it!

However, there's a licensing issue: although the sympytexpackage
LaTeX package and associated Python module are distributed under
the terms of the GNU GPL v2 or later, the documentation for
sympytexpackage is distributed under the terms of the CC-by-sa-nc
v3.0, as explained at the end of
/usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/latex/sympytexpackage/README
and in section 7 of
/usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/latex/sympytexpackage/sympytexpackage.pdf

The Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v3.0 license
is not acceptable for Debian main.

Please persuade the sympytexpackage author (Tim Molteno) to re-license
the documentation under the same terms as the rest of the
sympytexpackage LaTeX package (GNU GPL v2 or later).
If this attempt fails, please drop the non-free documentation from
the Debian package (of course, I would strongly prefer seeing
the documenation re-licensed under DFSG-free terms, rather than
dropped!).

Thanks for your time!
Bye.

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