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Re: Package with non-free build-depends



On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:09:42AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > Or else include a "precompiled" version of the docs into your diff
> > file.
> 
> Hm, I don't think I like this.  The gif images aren't the preferred form
> of modification.  Would we accept it if someone had a program written in
> a language which only had a non-free compiler, then uploaded source
> packages to main which contained object files, and just set
> Architecture: i386 ?  I don't think so.

That's the wrong analogy, because images are not programs, they are data.
If I wrote this email in a non-free editor, would you consider the data in
the email non-free just because of that?

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