Peter S Galbraith wrote:
I disagree with this interpretation. I certainly didn't think of it
that way when I packaged them.
While matlab and maple are certainly non-free software, the elisp files
don't support these software directly.
There are the autoloaded commands `matlab-shell' and `cmaple' to run
matlab and maple as subprocesses. Does that not mean direct support?
Count yourself lucky if RMS does not notice you promoting maple and
matlab. ;-)
The elisp files are to help write scripts which can be under any
license, including free ones.
My objection was that you still need the non-free third party software
to actually _run_ those scripts. :-(
Anyway, it seems that your point of view is generally accepted, as I found
three Emacs add-on packages in main which also help to write scripts
for non-free interpreters, namely inform-mode, lpc-mode and tads2-mode.
I don't even have matlab in my system but can read .m files more
easily with matlab-mode.
Okay, than matlab-mode is not so useless after all, I see.
Fortunately, you don't enforce that on other people by changing
auto-mode-alist.
If you still disagree, I guess we can ask debian-devel or debian-policy.
While I would still prefer a different package for these files, I am
sufficiently convinced that it is no policy violation to leave them in
the main section. So I've downgraded the severity to "wishlist".
Kind Regards,
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Sven Joachim
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