Hi! I am currently packaging latex-ucs (see #160953), being mentored and sponsored by Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>. The package is currently licensed under the LaTeX Project Public License (see http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt) with the following additions by upsteam: ----- snip ----- This program may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.1 of this license or (at your option) any later version, with the following extensions: - distribution may omit the files data/uninames.dat and ucs-doc.dvi - The directory structure may be changed - The data/uni-*.def files may be regenerated via makeunidef.pl from a valid set of config/*.def files without changing the former's names, whereby a valid set of config/*.ucf files consists of the original files and any local additions in separate files, whereby any characters defined in these should only be accessible via an option which starts with the five letters 'local'. (See the documentation files for a description of the technical terms and names in this paragraph). ----- snip ----- Since I want to split up the package in several (base, -dev, -doc, -contrib), I contacted upsteam who added the following permission: - A distribution may split the package into smaller packages, as long as this fact is visible to the user and the user may easily install the complete UCS package (e.g. by installing all small packages). Since the LPPL is quite restrictive, I'm not sure whether the LPPL + upstream's additions can be seen as DFSG-free. The most recent of the (few) statements about the LPPL can be found at http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/1999/debian-legal-199911/msg00145.html However, the thread was not very exhausting, so I'm asking again. It would be nice if answers are cc'ed to me since I'm not subscribed to d-legal. Thanks in advance! Martin -- Martin Pitt home: www.piware.de eMail: martin@piware.de
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