Subject: bug#5790 closed by Chong Yidong <[email-masked]> (Re: 23.1; emacs.svg license causing a lot of filetype detection mechanisms to fail)

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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:13:02 +0000

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#5790: 23.1; emacs.svg license causing a lot of filetype detection  mechanisms to fail

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Subject: Re: 23.1; emacs.svg license causing a lot of filetype detection mechanisms to fail
From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
To: "\"Jasper St. Pierre\" <jstpierre" <"at>mecheye.net"@furry>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:12:36 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> emacs.svg includes a very long GPL license preamble, which comes
> before the opening <svg> tag. This causes a lot of file detection
> systems, including file/libmagic, do not identify this icon file as a
> SVG. A simple fix would be to put the copyright preamble inside of the
> <svg> tag.

Thanks for the bug report.  I've fixed this on the Emacs 23.2 release
branch.

Subject: 23.1; emacs.svg license causing a lot of filetype detection mechanisms to fail
From: "Jasper St. Pierre" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:50:21 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

emacs.svg includes a very long GPL license preamble, which comes before the
opening <svg> tag. This causes a lot of file detection systems, including
file/libmagic, do not identify this icon file as a SVG. A simple fix would
be to put the copyright preamble inside of the <svg> tag.