Re: [Groff] GPL or FDL

[Bernd Warken]

This mail goes to the Debian admins. I think that's mostly
Colin Watson.

> Von: "Bernd Warken" <address@hidden>
>
> The groff source tree is usually licensed to GPL.  That is excellent.
> 
> But there are also some documents under the GNU FDL.  This is regarded
> as bad by Debian.  Many years ago, Debian made the groff package as
> non-free because of the FDL.  So I changed many documentation files in
> the groff tree to GPL.
> 
> In 2006, Debian made a voting wether the FDL should become free
> software:
> http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001.en.html
>
> They decided that the FDL without invariant sections would be compatible
> with Debian.

Can you tell us what Debian says today about using FDL (without
invariant sections), especially for GNU projects like groff.

Bernd Warken