Package: org-mode Version: 6.27a-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1
The documentation for ‘org-mode’ is distributed under a non-free license [0], according to ‘debian/copyright’: org-mode's documentation: ========================= Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation org-mode's orgcard is licensed under the GPL, and org-mode's manual is dual licensed under the GPL and GFDL (with the following restrictions: Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 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." Since these terms restrict modification of the work, the package currently fails to meet DFSG §3 and hence violates Policy §2.2.1. The package is not suitable for Debian ‘main’ while it includes non-free parts. Also, though not necessary to resolving this bug, it would be good to communicate with the upstream author of ‘org-mode’ to see if the documentation can be licensed under the same free terms as the rest of the work. (If the FSF insist on having the terms of the FDL, the author could dual-license the documentation under recipient's choice of FDL or GPL to allow this.) [0] <URL:http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001#outcome> -- \ “I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and | `\ despise the groups they identify with and belong to.” —George | _o__) Carlin, 2007 | Ben Finney <b...@benfinney.id.au>
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