The copyright holder of jwhois is the FSF. I don't know what their policy on re-licensing is though I guess it's not the first Debian bug to encounter this :-)
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 7:22 PM, bastien ROUCARIES < roucaries.bast...@gmail.com> wrote: > Package: jwhois > Severity: serious > user: debian...@lists.debian.org > usertags: gfdl-invariant > > The folowing file (manually checked) are non free with invariant version. > doc/jwhois.texi > doc/jwhois.info > > Could you please check if upstream is willing to relicense. > > Bastien > >