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Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Emacs and -- The GNU Project article removed


From: arnuld uttre
Subject: Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Emacs and -- The GNU Project article removed
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 08:40:21 +0530

> On 8/29/14, Nandakumar <address@hidden> wrote:
> It is not a bug.
> THE-GNU-PROJECT is licensed under a Creative Commons
> Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License. DFSG asks for
> 'Allowing for modifications and derived works.' Hence THE-GNU-PROJECT
> cannot be included in their free packages. Since anybody has the right
> to remove anything from Emacs and recompile it (except the license and
> copyright notification), they can do this.
>
> But you can do one thing: this can be pointed out as a drawback of DFSG.

I think Emacs is incomplete without "C-h t" pointing to
THE-GNU-PROJECT.  Is it okay to modify the emacs .deb package
gNewSense  to include this ?



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