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Why does #Debian's #Emacs package not include the documentation?

Turns out that's in the emacs-common-non-dsfg package... obviously.

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

because emacs' manual is licensed under dsfg (EDIT: i meant gfdl, lol) which is not free in debian's perspective
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Links to a lot of the background on the many, many discussions that happened around the GFDL and its compatibility with the DFSG:

wiki.debian.org/GFDLHistory

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