On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 08:08:01PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > 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? What do I think? I think WHY-FREE is a very ironic name for something so non-free. It should be removed, of course. I'm sorry if RMS will be unhappy, but the DFSG does not make exceptions if people are unhappy. Documentation *is* software, and therefore its licenses must follow the DFSG; I thought we just decided that. -- Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx> 0x560553e7 "Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all." --Douglas Adams
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