Debian Emacs breaks GPL?
> James Troup <james@nocrew.org> wrote:
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> Subject: Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs
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> [Want to know how Debian violates the GPL all the time? Check how
> many GPLed packages in Debian have modifications yet don't obey 2(a).]
I think there should be a /usr/doc/emacs20/README.Debian what says that
/usr/share/emacs/20.3/lisp/startup.el was modified to load
debian-startup.el at startup.
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When I first switched to using a Debian-packaged emacs-20 in hamm (having
always used my own build), I tried to figure out how the
/etc/emacs/site-start.d/ stuff worked, and couldn't figure out what was
loading debian-startup.el. It wasn't a site default.el, and there was
nothing in /usr/doc/emacs20 specifically about it.
The file /usr/doc/emacsen-common/debian-emacs-policy.gz describes how it
all works, but not how emacs20 source code is modified to do it...
So unless I missed something in the existing docs, I think there should be
a /usr/doc/emacs20/README.Debian what says that
/usr/share/emacs/20.3/lisp/startup.el was modified to load
debian-startup.el at startup.
Should I file a bug report against emacs20? This presumably applies to all
favours of Emacs.
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