Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I *swear* that one of the project documents said something highly >> relevant, to the effect of "nonfree material might be included in a >> package in `main' if it is well-separated, and not required for the >> operation of the package". I can't find it, so I'd appreciate it if >> someone would point it out to me .. Anyway, I'm pretty sure that it >> made explicit mention of RFCs and some humour files included with >> emacs. > > I think the humour files in emacs (that doesn't have a clear and free > license) are being removed, so perhaps that text has gone away. > > Anyway, if someone knows about that text, it would be quite > interesting to see where it was written and why (if at all) it has > been changed.
Could it be that what Justin is looking for is actually a statement that: Packages that contain *contrib* material which is "well-separated and not required for the operation of the package" can go into main? That one is true, I'm sure, although I can't give you a reference, either. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
