David Starner wrote: > (1) We do make an exception for licenses. > > (2) I once heard something about that mentioned on one of the debian > lists. (Yes, I can get vaguer. It might take work though.)
Agreed so far. I think at least three of us vaguely remember that discussion, so it probably happened. :-) > (3) There are some documents in main that need that exception. > (a) GNAT User's Guide (note that this is something I've been > planning to mention to RMS, that the main documentation > distributed along with a GNU program is non-free.) Why are gnat's docs so special they can't go in non-free with the other non-free software? > (b)The RFC's don't allow unlimited modification (restricting only > to commenting on or explaining the RFC.) And are thus clearly non-free. It's not as if access to the RFC's on a debian cd is a crucial part of debian, so why leave the moral high ground of the dfsg to make an exception for them? > (c)The translation of the dhammapada included with > display-dhammapada has no right to modify. > > (d)nase-a60 includes Revised Report on Algol 60, which has > no right to modify. And thus belongs in non-free for identical reasons to what I said above. -- see shy jo
