Re: teTeX non-Free
Richard Kaszeta <kaszeta@me.umn.edu> writes:
> Steve Dunham writes ("teTeX non-Free"):
> >severity 13456 important
> >stop
> >Bug#13456 (teTeX not completely free) needs to be resolved before the
> >release of hamm, so I'm raising it to important.
> >The listed problems are: seminar, koma-script, and foiltex (all
> >non-free). Does anyone know of any others?
> PS-Tricks (by the same author as seminar) falls into this same
> category.
:(
Oh well, seminar could be reproduced by enhancing slides, but I think
ps-tricks would be fairly impossible.
> Actually, a large chunk of teTeX may be considered to fall into the
> non-free category due to the requirement of *many* of the standard
> latex packages that the .dtx files be distributed alongside the .cls
> and .sty files, which last I checked the teTeX .deb's didn't (although
> of course they are available from the debian ftp sites). For example,
> array.sty states
> %% You are allowed to distribute this file if and only if
> %% it is distributed with the corresponding source files in
> %% the `tools' bundle.
It seems ok as long as the tetex-src binary package is
included. c.f. the "tetex-src" package description:
: Source files for the texmf tree of the Debian teTeX distribution.
: They are only here to meet the copyright requirements of some
: tex packages.
Steve
dunham@cps.msu.edu
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