Bug#477060: news concerning the amslatex license

[Benedikt Ahrens <benedikt.ahrens@gmx.net>]

Frank Küster wrote:
> Benedikt Ahrens wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I recently sent a message to the AMS in order to get updated news about
>> the relicensing issue. Perhaps you are interested in their answer.

>>    Some of the related files may still have the old license.
> 
> That probably means they didn't manage to contact all involved persons?
> Well, Debian will probably be able to accept this for a while.

It has been accepted for some time already, hasn't it? "The old
license", that's certainly the one of the files in Lenny. So the
integration of this release in Debian should be handled with care.

>> What we could do, if it would help, is add a 00LICENSE file to the
>> current distribution that contains the new license, an explanation of
>> the situation, and a statement that this supersedes the one in the
>> individual files.  I suspect that strictly speaking this is legally
>> dicey, but it would certainly make our intentions clear.

Will Debian add this 00LICENSE file to the Lenny package? The gNewSense
community/developers have accepted this solution and are planning to
update their texlive-base package.

Greetings
ben