Jérôme Marant wrote: > After cautiously reading you message, here are my intends about the listed > files. Please correct me if you think I'm wrong. > > [CRUFT] Remove from any package > [NON-FREE] Move to non-free > [MAIN] Keep in main I agree with all of these, except: > neroden@twcny.rr.com (Nathanael Nerode) writes: [...] >> COPYING >> -- Non-free (verbatim only), but we make an exception for it because it's >> the license for the program. > > [MAIN] [CRUFT]; packages should not include copies of the GPL, but should instead refer to /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. >> yow.lines >> -- large numbers of quotations from Bill Griffith's Zippy comics, >> without permission. There are so damn many of them that it >> worries me. (Unlike the other lists, which don't consist entirely >> of work by one author.) I'd remove it. Any other people want >> to weigh in? > > [CRUFT] Emacs actually does use this; M-x yow and M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead draw Zippy quotes from this file. That doesn't necessarily change the freeness status of it (though the quotes may still fall under fair use or similar), but it probably changes it to [NON-FREE] at least. - Josh Triplett
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