Re: Bug#200003: cpp: contains non-free manpages
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 10:18:50PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> AFAIK the distribution of
> license texts is allowed in main, even if the license itself is
> non-free.
This would seem to be only common sense.
If I take it upon myself to educate the world about the evil and stupidity
of the EULA of the Infinidim Corporation, I might release a package
containing infinidim-eula(7), unmodified from its original distributed
form. (Along with separate treatises like why-infinidim-is-stupid(7)
and except-for-the-gray-skin-they-look-just-like-vogons(7).)
Even though the Infinidim EULA is a non-free license, that shouldn't
preclude us from distributing the /test/ of the license, only software
released /under/ that license. (Assuming, of course, that the EULA doesn't
prohibit copying of the EULA itself, which would be a remarkably stupid
thing to do, and certainly doesn't apply to the actual texts in question.)
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