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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: Need some help to remove non-free documentation
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 09:28:14 +0200
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To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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Hello,

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:

Thank you for your answer.

> What I would do in a =E2=80=98snippet=E2=80=99 or the origin is:
>
>   1. rm -rf doc
>
>   2. Remove =E2=80=9Cdoc=E2=80=9D from the =E2=80=98SUBDIRS=E2=80=99 vari=
able of the top-level
>      Makefile.in.

That would remove all documentation. However, only a tiny part of it is
non-free. I'm trying to preserve some of it.

> That way you won=E2=80=99t need to regenerate the build files.
>
> Does that make sense or am I too naive?

IIUC, this will unfortunately not cut it.

> (Besides we should get in touch with the folks at Grenoble University to
> see if they would agree to liberating the docs.  Perhaps Debian people
> already attempted?)

Debian encounters the same problem, see
<https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/giac/blob/master/debian/giac-doc.REA=
DME.Debian>.

I don't know if they attempted to contact the author, tho.

Regards,

--=20
Nicolas Goaziou