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Bug#65961: tetex-base/tetex-nonfree: serious license problems



From: Adrian
Subject: Bug#65961:
Date: Tue,

> tetex-nonfree contains only the following packages (besides seminar)):
> 
> koma: licence changed and is DFSG-free now

If so, then koma should be moved to tetex-base or tetex-extra?

> > I don't know if there's a newer version of stmaryrd.sty around, but
> > the current one says:
> >...
> 
> The copyright was changed to:
> 
> % This document is copyright \copyright~1991--1994 Alan Jeffrey.%
> % The St Mary's Road fonts are copyright \copyright~1991--1994 Jeremy
> % Gibbons and Alan Jeffrey.  All rights are reserved.
> % The moral right of the authors has been asserted.
> %     
> % This package may be distributed under the terms of the LaTeX Project
> Public
> % License, as described in lppl.txt in the base LaTeX distribution.
> % Either version 1.0 or, at your option, any later version.

I verified the above but it also stated in stmaryrd.sty that

%% This generated file may be distributed as long as the
%% original source files, as listed above, are part of the
%% same distribution. (The sources need not necessarily be
%% in the same archive or directory.)

however, AFAIK, stmaryrd.dtx is not included in any tetex-* packages.
It is included in the original teTeX-texmfsrc.

At least we should clarify these two points.

BTW, as I have not enough time to check please tell me the 
situation a bit.

The original source of tetex-base is teTeX-texmf?
The original source of tetex-bin is teTeX-src?
The original source of tetex-src is (part of?) teTeX-texmfsrc?

I think that it might make the situation much clear if we
take teTeX-texmfsrc as the original source of tetex-base.
(Of course splitting it into DFSG-free parts and non-free parts)

But this might cause mutual dependency at build time between
tetex-bin and tetex-base (is this true?).

How do you think on this?

Thanks in advance,		2000.6.23

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
 Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.



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