Re: Bug#207932: Statement that all of Debian needs to be Free?

[Jérôme Marant <jmarant@free.fr>]

Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> writes:

>> etc/{CENSORSHIP,copying.paper,INTERVIEW,LINUX-GNU,THE-GNU-PROJECT,WHY-FREE}
>
> only "copying.paper" sounds like a license; the rest are simply documents,
> which must be DFSG-free to be in Debian.  This is not a matter of
> controversy, or even significant disagreement; SC2004-003 made this
> explicitly clear.  Please remove these non-free documents; the grace
> period allowed by SC2004-004 expired with the release of sarge.

They are out of the scope of the DFSG. They are neither programs nor
documentation: they are speeches and articles which are logically
non modifiable without the consent of their author.

Whether they are around or not is irrelevant to the freeness of Emacs.

-- 
Jérôme Marant