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Some "main" pkgs not Draft DFSG #5 free



On 26-Jan-99 Jules Bean wrote:
>> As for the draft, point 4 is covered.  The current draft says:
>> 
>>      These guidelines are intended to be applied to software programs, that
>>      is, machine-readable programs that instruct a computer how to perform
>>      specific tasks, its source code, and any other items included with the
>>      original source distribution.
>> 
>> The line "....and any other items..." is intended to cover documentation
>> that's part of the distributed software but not require third-party
>> written works to be covered under the software license. 
> 
> *nod*.
> 
> Which excludes some software, currently in main, whose documentation
> happens to be non-free.  Ouch.
> 

Another curiosity, aside from perl(?) are there any other packages that you can
think of that would be stung by this... major packages?

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