Re: New DFSG-compliant emacs packages
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:16:43 +0200, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> said:
>> not an Debian Emacs packaging policy issue, so there not much you
>> can do about it. Moving the whole thing to non-free means removing
>> Emacs from Debian, since non-free isn't part of Debian. I
>> understand that the line is unclear to many users.
> If Emacs does not meet the standards of Debian, yes, this would be
> the thing to do.
Emacs meets the standards just fine. The bundled docs,
however., a re not free. I understand these are merely aggregated
works -- pr else the GPL would have applied to everything. I am not
sure what the problem is about removing non-free bits from the
aggregated bundle and retaining only the free bits?
manoj
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