Originally Posted by Hirsute
This is also incorrect. All files included in an addon are copyright to the addon author, and permission must be sought for any modification, distribution, or reproduction that is not explicitly permitted by the license of the addon. This includes the toc, the lua and any other files included with the addon.
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toc file is just an addon description (much like .lnk file in windows), lacking in "originality" to qualify for copyright protection. You can consider it WoW config file.
Even if you would argue it is still a copyrighted work, you can leave it intact, unpack addon into /foo/foo/ and make your own foo.toc file loading proper lua files from /foo/.