Barak Pearlmutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Okay - that's not a bug because they're just little harmless
snippets which are informative and interesting, are not functional,
are *removable*, and merely accompany the package but do not
constitute an integral part of it. By long-standing Debian
tradition their inclusion is considered reasonable and proper, and
not a violation of policy. Since this is the case, the burden of
proof is upon you to demand such an serious change in Debian
practice. Certainly their removal goes far beyond the GFDL-related
consensus reached by debian-legal, which was concerned with
non-removable materials.
And for whatever it's worth, as long as I'm maintaining the packages,
these files will almost certainly not be removed unless there's some
overwhelmingly convincing reason, like debian-legal tells me it needs
to be done, there's a successful General Resolution passed on a
relevant topic, or they're removed from the upstream...
In any case, presuming debian-legal becomes satisfied that I don't
need to do anything about these files, I'll either mark this bug
wonfix, or more likely, close it.
(Just so there's no confusion, I am planning to accomodate whatever we
decide with respect to the GFDLed files.)
--
Rob Browning
rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu
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