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Re: Documentation licenses (GFDL discussion on debian-legal)



On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:15:42AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 
> > Why are we distributing the bible then?
> 
> > bible-kjv-text - King James Version of the Bible - text and concordance
> 
> - It's been argued that this particular text is useful as data employed
>   by programs

So all you need is to write a simple program that can do whatever
the bible package does with the bible and you can include the novels
in Debian.

> - No one's gotten worked up enough about having *one* such text in the
>   archive to request its removal.  Abusing this precedent by uploading
>   dozens of books to the archive is much more likely to result in a
>   response.

You mean a GR to remove the packages?
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