Anthony Towns <[email protected]> writes: > If we decide "hey, let's not distribute them in main at all", I take it > you mean. > > You don't have to distribute pristine tarballs. The xfree86 upstream > source includes some non-free stuff, which is stripped out of the > .orig.tar.gz before Branden uploads it, eg.
I didn't know that. > I don't have any problem with an .orig.tar.gz that includes > redistributable but non-DFSG-free stuff, as long as (eg) the .diff.gz > removes those files. Isn't it different from removing them from the pristine tarball since we also distribute packages as sources? > Alternatively, if we keep distributing them, then we should move them > to other packages (if they're relevant to non-emacs-users, doc-debian > or a new gnu-propaganda package, say), or at least to other directories > (/usr/share/doc/emacs, eg). Other packages yes, but not built from the same source I guess ... However, I cannot imagine the GNU manifesto in non-free :-P Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org
