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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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Jeremy Hankins <nowan@nowan.org>
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