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Re: Non-free data in Poppler test suite
From: |
Liliana Marie Prikler |
Subject: |
Re: Non-free data in Poppler test suite |
Date: |
Sat, 02 Jul 2022 11:04:28 +0200 |
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Evolution 3.42.1 |
Am Dienstag, dem 28.06.2022 um 23:19 +0200 schrieb Marius Bakke:
> Hello Guix,
>
> I discovered a potential freedom issue with the Poppler test suite.
> [...]
> 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:
Looking around the repository some more, I think there might actually
have been some neglect w.r.t. how we typically recommend licensing
information ought to be conveyed. I've raised two issues upstream,
[1] for data as reported here, [2] for code. Let's see how poppler
devs reply.
Cheers
[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/test/-/issues/1
[2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/test/-/issues/2