Re: teTeX non-Free
maor@ece.utexas.edu (Guy Maor) writes:
>
> Steve Dunham <dunham@cps.msu.edu> writes:
>
> > > %% 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.
>
> Why must parts of the source be packaged up as debs? Do the files in
> the source/ directory not satisfy this requirement? Most of our
> licences require that the source be made available.
The sources of tetex-base, tetex-extra and tetex-doc etc. are not the
same as tetex-src.
The files in tetex-src are additional files which you don't need to
install to make tetex run and which you don't need to build tetex-base
etc.
The architecture independent files of tetex come (from upstream) as
ready installable files. Some of theres files were produced from the
file in tetex-src by doc-strip, which just - as the name says - strips
the documentation from the file.
I did not look into it in deepth, but you don't need them other than
to fullfill copyright.
Christoph
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