On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 11:42:43PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 14 Oct 2019 at 21:06:21 (-0700), Dan Hitt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm using debian 9 (stretch). > > > > I would like to install the info node for elisp (in emacs). > > > > I went to packages.debian.org to search for elisp in stretch. There are > > six results but none of them look like they contain info documentation.
[...] > Perhaps you're looking for emacs-common-non-dfsg which is in non-free > (for licensing reasons I believe). Yes. There is a conflict between how Debian defines "free" (DFSG) and how GNU wants to license their "free" documentation (GFDL). Possibly best summarized here [1] Freedom is a complex beast, alas. [1] https://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001 Cheers -- tomás
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