I'm sorry, I really didn't mean to put words in your mouth. I thought that was what you were saying.
> You seem to be proposing that we deliberately close our eyes to DFSG > problems we may encounter, as long as the problem encountered is > "small". That is not my position! As I hope you would know. I would never close my eyes to a DFSG problem. All our software must be free: modifiable etc. That is a given. The items under discussion are not "software" in the usual sense of the term. They're little bits of history and such, like the imaginary sister-cancer-email README file or /usr/share/emacs/21.2/etc/WHY-FREE. Unlike a Changelog they are not helpful for understanding the source code itself, ie not documentary. However we do allow grow-only Changelogs (even though I don't much approve of the idea, as I doubt many of us do), so you might find some similarity there. You might think of snippets a little like that. Those grow-only Changelogs are generally removable, although I'm not sure if we actually require that. But the snippets under discussion here are always removable.
