Bug#345604: ConTeXt documentation is non-free
Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch> wrote:
> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>>
>> But pdfTeX does, and it claims to be GPLed.
>
> That's a good point - but this shouldn't be discussed on the teTeX
> mailinglist, but with the web2c people (it's not an issue of pdftex
> only, most current implementations of TeX on unix(like) or Windows use
> web2c code which is GPL.
I'll meet Martin Schröder, one of the pdfTeX developers, at the DANTE
meeting in Berlin in the first week of March, and talk to him about the
issue.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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