On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 08:08:01PM +0200, J?r?me Marant wrote: > > Hi, > > According to Dylan Thurston (see #154043), some files shipped > with GNU Emacs could be considered as non-free. > > One of them is /usr/share/emacs/21.3/etc/LINUX-GNU. > > The problem seem to come from the footer which mentions: > > Copyright 1996 Richard Stallman > Verbatim copying and redistribution is permitted > without royalty as long as this notice is preserved. > > Also in /usr/share/emacs/21.3/etc/WHY-FREE > > Copyright 1994 Richard Stallman > Verbatim copying and redistribution is permitted > without royalty as long as this notice is preserved; > alteration is not permitted. > > > What do you people think of this? Just one more comment: the versions of both of these two essays available on gnu.org (at http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html and http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html) have a slightly different license: Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved. Notably, "without royalty" is missing. Peace, Dylan
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