On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 05:45:09AM +0000, Brian M. Carlson wrote: > Package: glibc > Version: unavailable; reported 2002-12-04 > Severity: serious > Justification: Policy 2.1.1, 2.1.2 > > debian-legal has recently decided that the GNU Free Documentation > License is non-free. Therefore, at least libc.info* must be removed from > the package.
Despite its coverage in DWN, I don't think that the discussion has reached anywhere near the level of conclusiveness to merit the filing of serious bugs yet. As far as I can see, all that happened was that Walter Landry decided that it contained a non-free clause ("may not use technical measures to obstruct or control ..."), and nobody disagreed right away. Personally I cannot see how that clause can be read as a use restriction (it explicitly talks about "the copies you make or distribute"), and I don't think the clause mentioned is qualitatively different from the GPL's restrictions on distribution. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]