Re: Bug#122929: wpoison, is it okay?

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> writes:

> On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 12:00:46PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > >From tex.web:
> 
> Do we even distribute TeX?  We have packages for tetex, which claims
> to be GPLed.  I didn't look very closely, though.

Tetex's license applies to the special tetex parts.  Much of it is a
bunch of programs from many other sources, all free.  tetex builds TeX
by automagically converting the Web source (really Pascal) into C and
then compiling that.

Thomas