Comment 14 for bug 6762

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Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 06:43:08 -0600
From: Colin Watson <email address hidden>
To: "Brian M. Carlson" <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#171659: glibc: contains non-free docs and perhaps non-free
 code

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.

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Colin Watson [<email address hidden>]