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ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

> Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > $ grep 'Copyright (C)' base64.el md5.el gpg*el starttls.el gnus-ml.el
> > base64.el:;;; Copyright (C) 1997 Kyle E. Jones
> > md5.el:;; Copyright (C) 1995 by Gareth Rees
> > md5.el:;; Copyright (C) 1990, RSA Data Security, Inc. All rights reserved.
> > gpg-ring.el:;; Copyright (C) 2000 RUS-CERT, University Of Stuttgart
> > gpg.el:;; Copyright (C) 2000 RUS-CERT, University Of Stuttgart
> > starttls.el:;; Copyright (C) 1999 Daiki Ueno
> > gnus-ml.el:;; Copyright (C) 2000 by Julien Gilles 
> 
> All of them are optional.  Gnus won't break without them.

Base64 support is hardly optional, but since it is build into modern
Emacsen, providing it in an unassigned file for backward compatibility
seems reasonable enough.

In general, I think unassigned code should be put in a contrib
directory, and not enabled by default.