Re: Non-free data in Poppler test suite

[Ludovic Courtès]

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’.