[bug #59545] MORE.STUFF: Add material

[G. Branden Robinson]

Follow-up Comment #10, bug #59545 (project groff):


[comment #9 comment #9:]
> As I understand it, that is not the purpose of contrib.
> 
> I recently captured that understanding (which is subject to correction by
those longer in the tooth than I) in the "LICENSE" file.
> 
> 
> Files in the contrib/ subdirectory of the source distribution are not
> strictly part of groff.  That is, they are distributed with it and are
> Free Software <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html>, but they
> are not considered essential parts of the distribution.  Further, they
> may bear licenses other than the GPL or the FSF does not administer
> their copyrights.  To determine their copyright status and licensing,
> see the "COPYRIGHT" file in the appropriate subdirectory of contrib/.
> 
> 
> I don't consider lack of testing a gate to inclusion.  We can write a smoke
test for basic sane operation and go from there.
> 
> Similarly, if it makes sense to move sboxes out of contrib, we can do that.

I want to follow up to make sure I'm not misunderstood here.  I mean that by
not having busgrap or sboxes in contrib, I don't mean not having them in the
groff distribution at all, but rather placing them alongside the "main",
regular content, i.e., where Deri's gropdf and other contributions already
are.


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