Bug#345604: ConTeXt documentation is non-free
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> * Frank Küster:
>
>> Florian, are you on a general search for non-free docs, and looking at
>> more files in tetex-doc? Then please also send a Debbugs-Cc to
>> 218105@bugs.debian.org ("Woeful copyright file").
>
> I'm aware of that bug report, but think of it as a separate matter
> (especially the tex.web status
#218195 is about the woeful copyright file, not the woeful copyright of
a particular file... What we really need to do is to sort out which
parts of teTeX are under which license, and document that clearly (and
remove if necessary), and to that end collecting information about
GFDLed stuff is important. Therefore I'd like to have the information
in that bug, too.
> and how this file can be used in GPLed
> programs is completely non-obvious to me).
I guess the license is GPL-incompatible, but DFSG-free. And *that* is
not a practical problem, since nobody would want to reuse the code from
tex.web in a new project. There have been a couple of attempts to
reimplement the algorithms, though, and the latest one is under LGPL
(ExTeX at http://www.extex.org/)
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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