After cautiously reading you message, here are my intends about the listed
files. Please correct me if you think I'm wrong.
[CRUFT] Remove from any package
[NON-FREE] Move to non-free
[MAIN] Keep in main
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathanael Nerode) writes:
Files in the /etc directory of emacs21
Jérôme Marant wrote:
After cautiously reading you message, here are my intends about the listed
files. Please correct me if you think I'm wrong.
[CRUFT] Remove from any package
[NON-FREE] Move to non-free
[MAIN] Keep in main
I agree with all of these, except:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathanael Nerode) writes:
Files in the /etc directory of emacs21 which may be legally problematic
follow.
Thank you very much. This is an impressive piece of work.
I'll take some time to read it cautiously and come back if
any question.
Cheers,
--
Jérôme Marant
Files in the /etc directory of emacs21 which may be legally problematic follow.
If you can't stand to read this all, the brief summary:
* As well as the ones you spotted before,
DISTRIB, GNU, MOTIVATION, and gfdl.1 are non-free.
* There are a lot of files without any copyright or licensing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathanael Nerode)
And the license-free graphics files. These probably have a better
claim to be part of emacs and under the general license than the
rest, because there's no place to put a separate license statement
in these files.
Some of these files look like C code.
Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Files in the /etc directory of emacs21 which may be legally problematic
follow.
termcap.src
This file is (mechanically generated) from ncurses' terminfo.src,
and a moment's consideration would show that there is substantial
creative content, not just
Nathanael Nerode wrote:
Files in the /etc directory of emacs21 which may be legally problematic
follow.
* There are a lot of files without any copyright or licensing information,
and upstream probably will want to fix this. I would remove a lot of these
even if they turn out to be
celibacy.1
condom.1
-- Post-1988 (1992).
Probably a better fit for the funny-manpages package than the emacs
package.
sex.6
-- Issued without copyright notice prior to 1988 (1987),
so it's in the public domain.
Modified since then, according to emacs CVS.
In any case,
Joe Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jérôme Marant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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The following files have already been identified as offending:
etc/{CENSORSHIP,copying.paper,INTERVIEW,LINUX-GNU,THE-GNU-PROJECT,WHY-FREE}
Following are are nonfree documents found in
Jérôme Marant wrote:
Far away from flamewars and heated discussions, the Emacs maintainers
(Rob Browning and I) are in a process of moving non-free files to
a dedicated package.
Thank you very much for working on this.
In order to avoid repackaging as much as possible once done, we would
Josh Triplett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just to confirm the parameters of this review, are you assuming that any
file not explicitly licensed falls under the GPL of Emacs? Or should we
flag files which have no explicit license? Quite a number of the files
in etc/ have no explicit license.
* Jérôme Marant:
Far away from flamewars and heated discussions, the Emacs maintainers
(Rob Browning and I) are in a process of moving non-free files to
a dedicated package.
What about the Texinfo documentation? Currently, it's GFDL plus
invariant sections.
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Jérôme Marant:
Far away from flamewars and heated discussions, the Emacs maintainers
(Rob Browning and I) are in a process of moving non-free files to
a dedicated package.
What about the Texinfo documentation? Currently, it's GFDL plus
invariant
Jérôme Marant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The following files have already been identified as offending:
etc/{CENSORSHIP,copying.paper,INTERVIEW,LINUX-GNU,THE-GNU-PROJECT,WHY-FREE}
Following are are nonfree documents found in cygwin's Emacs disto besides
what
Dear debian-legal,
Far away from flamewars and heated discussions, the Emacs maintainers
(Rob Browning and I) are in a process of moving non-free files to
a dedicated package.
In order to avoid repackaging as much as possible once done, we would
like to make sure that any problematic file has
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