Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> It seems this source package contains the following files from the
> IETF under non-free license terms:
> 
> nettle-1.14.orig/testsuite/rfc1750.txt 

Hmm. This is kind-of funny. I use this file as test input regression
testing of the pseudorandomness generator, because I felt it was
appropriate...

I can easily replace the file by any free text file. Any suggestions?

For instance, I could replace it by the GNU manifesto, subject to
"Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
of this document, in any medium, provided that the copyright notice
and permission notice are preserved, and that the distributor grants
the recipient permission for further redistribution as permitted by
this notice. Modified versions may not be made.".

Is that acceptable? I haven't been following the debian debates on the
topic very closely. As far as I'm aware, the GNU manifesto is included
in debian's emacs packages, and it would look pretty silly to remove
it.

Anyway, in the context of Nettle, rfc1750 is not really "source code",
and it doesn't make much sense to modify or fix bugs in it.

Regards,
/Niels

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