Re: Non-free data in Poppler test suite

[Liliana Marie Prikler]

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