Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el

[Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>]

>>>>> On Mon, 11 Jan 2021, Richard Stallman wrote:

> These are cases of a problem.  Would you please give details
> so we can investigate and see what kind of problem each one is?

1. org-mode installs the following two files:

   etc/schema/od-schema-v1.2-os.rnc
   etc/schema/od-manifest-schema-v1.2-os.rnc

They can also be found in the Emacs repository:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/schema

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The key phrase is "this document itself may not be modified in any way".

The files appear to be part of the Open Document standard, but as
Relax-NG schemas they are functional data.

It was also briefly mentioned in the debian-legal mailing list in 2018:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2018/08/msg00007.html
but AFAICS, Debian still distributes the files in their package.

2. As for the GNU Intlfonts package, that one may need a complete audit
of all its files. I see some files in the public domain and some with an
HPND license notice. Some Tibetan fonts come with the following notice
including a non-commercial restriction:

   97.1.21  Created by Toru TOMABECHI <Toru.Tomabechi@orient.unil.ch>.
   The glyphs are taken, using PS2PK and PK2BM, from TibMdxA type 1 font,
   originally designed by Christopher FYNN <cfynn@sahaja.demon.co.uk>.
   Slight modification has been made using XMBDFED and glyphs have
   been re-ordered.

   Original glyph design: Copyright (C) Christopher FYNN 1993-1994.
   Many thanks to Chris for kindly permitting its
   non-commercial use for our implementation.