i would not say that program was ever "permitted" - the issue on the
bug tracker that you quoted from, exists to evaluate that program and
remove if it does in fact include non-free files - these things
sneak in from arch often and they take time to evaluate - a little
non-copyleft artwork is understandably not at the highest priority
Without getting too wrapped up in definitions, from looking at the old
releases of Warsow the license change which permitted inclusion as a
result of the following issue: https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/1108 is
the one that exists between warsow_15 and warsow_20 from the following
archives http://sebastian.network/warsow/old_releases/ in which the CC
BY-ND is also included. Wikipedia states the following release dates
"June 8, 2014 (version 1.51), November 30, 2015 (version 2.0)" both of
which are before the 09/26/2016 date that #1108 was reported. If you
also consider the fact that the date on the license.txt file (when
installing from the repo or the most recent archive available on the
Warsow website) is 26/03/2016 it would appear that it was indeed
"permitted" after all.
for one thing, the FSDG explicitly forbids leading users directly to
non-free software - to me, that includes most third-party package
managers, AUR helpers, docker/appimage/flatpack/snaps, and so on; but
parabola has those, and there is an open issue about removing or
filtering them - i would say that whatever the decision is regarding
those should be carried over to media files as well; but that is still
up in the air
So would this include programs that enable people to import assets?
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