Re: tetex-base needs a new orig.tar.gz

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

I wrote:

>
> Both in copyright and in README.debian, we tell people that we took the
> updates from CTAN. This might be no ideal solution, but compared to the
> problems raised in the -legal thread, it's peanuts. We'd better
> concentrate on this, not on tetex-src.

No, all this is irrelevant here, because it applies to derived
works. What we do provide in tetex-base/extra/doc is not defined in
LPPL-1.2. In LPPL-1.3 it is called "compiled work", and there are no
requirements to distribute the source along with it:


,----
| 3. You may distribute a Compiled Work that has been generated from a
|    complete, unmodified copy of the Work as distributed under Clause 2
|    above, as long as that Compiled Work is distributed in such a way
|    that the recipients may install the Compiled Work on their system
|    exactly as it would have been installed if they generated a Compiled
|    Work directly from the Work.
`----

Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie