On Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 1:59:11 PM UTC, tha...@debian.org wrote:
>
> The GNU Free Documentation License is not considered a free license by 
> Debian. So if it's this, it can't be included in Debian. :(
>
> See 
> https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#GNU_Free_Documentation_License_.28GFDL.29
>
> Am Sonntag, 4. Dezember 2016 21:45:27 UTC schrieb tha...@debian.org:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I found conflicting information about the license of the SageMath 
>> documentation.
>>
>> While it says nothing in COPYING.txt, it says in 
>> src/doc/en/reference/history_and_license/index.rst that "All documentation 
>> is released under the GNU Free Documentation License." 
>>
>>
As far as I am concerned, all the docs can be re-licensed under Creative 
Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License`__.
I guess that "...GNU Free Documentation License..." might merely be a typo, 
given that what follows this line is the text of the usual GPL.


On the other hand, there are many files, for example 
>> src/doc/en/reference/index.rst which state "This work is licensed under a 
>> `Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License`__."
>>
>> So which one is true? This should be clarified in the sources.
>>
>> Best,
>> Tobias
>>
>

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