From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Non-free data in Poppler test suite
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2022 15:12:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877d4x3rjf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k090qydo.fsf@gnu.org> (Marius Bakke's message of "Tue, 28 Jun 2022 23:19:47 +0200")
Hi!
Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org> skribis:
> So the million dollar question ... are these files okay to use for Guix?
>
> In my (non-lawyer) opinion, I have faith that Poppler developers would
> not distribute files that are not freely redistributable, and that this
> counts as "non-functional data" per FSDG guidelines:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html
>
> However, we failed to reach a consensus on #guix[0]. What do others
> around here think? Should we play it safe and disable Poppler tests?
> Raise the issue with FSF? Something else?
IANAL, but… I would argue that these PDFs are “non-functional” in the
sense that they do not have any impact on the functionality of Poppler.
It may also be that this qualifies as fair use (AIUI, we’re talking
about pages extracted from larger PDF files, right?).
What does Debian do? :-)
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-01 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-28 21:19 Non-free data in Poppler test suite Marius Bakke
2022-06-28 21:29 ` Maxime Devos
2022-07-01 12:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-07-19 12:43 ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-29 8:04 ` zimoun
2022-07-01 13:12 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2022-07-01 19:22 ` Mark H Weaver
2022-07-06 0:39 ` Marius Bakke
2022-07-02 14:12 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2022-07-02 9:04 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
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