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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: Permission to use portions of the recent GNU Emacs Manual
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 19:53:43 -0500
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The people who consider these issues for Debian have arrived at an
extremely strict and mechanical way of interpreting their criteria,
which I think is very mistaken.

The FSF made this decision years ago, and it is not an open question
now.  Could you please move the discussion to gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org?