Re: [Pkg-texlive-maint] Bug#368902: underscore.sty non-free as shipped; author relicense available
Hi Josh!
Thanks for reporting this. We (=tetex and texlive maintainers in Debian)
are currently evaluation all files, checking for licenses etc. This is a
tedious process and will take - well let's hope not ages, but long time.
The problem with TeX especially that many of the input files are 10+
years old, when licensing was not an issue at all.
On Don, 25 Mai 2006, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Package: texlive
> Version: 2005-1
> Severity: serious
>
> underscore.sty as shipped in texlive has the following non-free license:
> % Copyright 1998,2001 Donald Arseneau; Distribute freely if unchanged.
>
> However, I wrote to Donald Arseneau and he agreed to relicense this file
> under the LPPL; including his mail in the debian/copyright file should
> make underscore.sty distributable in main (and also permit inclusion in
> tetex as well). I've quoted his mail below.
>
> - Josh Triplett
>
> Donald Arseneau wrote:
> > Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> writes:
> >> % Copyright 1998,2001 Donald Arseneau; Distribute freely if unchanged.
> >>
> >> Would you be willing to license this file under the standard LaTeX
> >> Project Public License, or another Free Software license?
> >
> > Yeah. Following that original short permission, I should use the LPPL.
I will keep this in mind, but we are only now starting with creating the
necessary infrastructure, ie checking all files via the TeX Catalogue
entries of the licenses, and verifying the licenses.
Best wishes
Norbert
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Norbert Preining <preining AT logic DOT at> Università di Siena
gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ford had his own code of ethics. It wasn't much of one,
but it was his and he stuck by it, more or less. One rule
he made was never to buy his own drinks. He wasn't sure if
that counted as an ethic, but you have to go with what
you've got.
--- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Reply to: