Legal questions about some GNU Emacs files

[jmarant@nerim.net (Jérôme Marant)]

Hi,

According to Dylan Thurston (see #154043), some files shipped
with GNU Emacs could be considered as non-free.

One of them is /usr/share/emacs/21.3/etc/LINUX-GNU.

The problem seem to come from the footer which mentions:

  Copyright 1996 Richard Stallman
  Verbatim copying and redistribution is permitted
  without royalty as long as this notice is preserved.

Also in /usr/share/emacs/21.3/etc/WHY-FREE

  Copyright 1994 Richard Stallman
  Verbatim copying and redistribution is permitted
  without royalty as long as this notice is preserved;
  alteration is not permitted.


What do you people think of this?

-- 
Jérôme Marant

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