> They also told me that they don't want to allow the commercial > distribution of the book, anyway again in their opinion this doesn't > violate the DFSG.
As someone who has packaged documentation before, I'm surprised that Debian would agree with this. It's clearly non-free for software, and I don't see what's so special about documentation to be exempt. The GNU Free Documentation License allows it. We really need policy on on free documentation. Peter