Alexander Villalba <alexvillalb...@gmail.com> writes: > why gdb-doc is in non-free ??!:
Because the GNU FDL does not grant the freedoms necessary for free software. > gdb-doc is also GNU The ‘gdb-doc’ work is released by the Free Software Foundation, and they intend it to be part of the GNU operating system. But, confusingly, the FSF do not consider that work to be free software (because they make an arbitrary and ill-defined distinction between documentation and software). <URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License#Criticism> For a work to be included in Debian, this distinction is irrelevant: the work must satisfy the Debian Free Software Guidelines. Because the license restrictions do not grant the freedoms promised in the Debian Free Software Guidelines, the ‘gdb-doc’ work cannot be in Debian. -- \ “Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for | `\ what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.” | _o__) —Niels Bohr | Ben Finney
