On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 05:12:12PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
FWIW, in terms of free software ethics, I consider non-open data to be "less nasty" than non-free code.Debian is unusual in the way we interpret our mission statement as extending to everything we distribute being Free, not just our executable code.I don't think Debian is perfectly consistent in applying that principle: for example, the text of the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) is included in Debian packages (in 'main') and has a clearly non-freelicense, and IIRC sometimes not even in debian/copyright.
Same for the text of GPL.
There are other examples historically of similar content too, e.g., IETF RFCs
These are usually considered bugs. -- WBR, wRAR
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