GNU bug report logs - #5790
23.1; emacs.svg license causing a lot of filetype detection mechanisms to fail

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre <at> mecheye.net>

Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:54:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: "\"Jasper St. Pierre\" <jstpierre" <"at>mecheye.net"@furry>
Cc: 5790-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.1;
	emacs.svg license causing a lot of filetype detection mechanisms to
	fail
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:12:36 -0400

> 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.
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