Re: Final Draft: Interpretive Guideline regarding DFSG clause 3
Henning Makholm said:
> I think I would be satisfied if we added something like
>
> 3) If a copyright holder withholds permission to modify or remove
> other texts of a non-technical nature, the merits of including
> the work in Debian must be considered on a case-by-case basis.
> As a general rule, such works should not be included simply because
> someone wants to package them, but only when a compelling argument
> can be made that it would significantly impair Debian's value as
> a free operating system if the work was left out.
This is what non-free is for, right? How is including the emacs docs
"cuz we need it" different from including netscape back whene there
weren't any free alternatives?
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