Re: Bug#13456: teTeX non-Free

[joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen)]

 Steve Dunham writes:
  > 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?

>From (most/all?) of the ntgclass files:

% % Please do not request updates from us directly.  Distribution is
% % done through Mail-Servers and TeX organizations.
% % 
% % You are not allowed to change this file.
% % 
% % You are allowed to distribute this file under the condition that
% % it is distributed together with all files mentioned in 00readme.txt.
% % 
% % If you receive only some of these files from someone, complain!
% % 
% % You are NOT ALLOWED to distribute this file alone.  You are NOT
% % ALLOWED to take money for the distribution or use of either this
% % file or a changed version, except for a nominal charge for copying

I don't think the "You are not allowed to change this file."
really passes the DSFG, nor the "You are NOT ALLOWED to distribute
this file alone".

The stupid thing is that as far as I know when people have problems
with these files (or require extra features), even the authors 
advice to change little bits in them.




-- 
joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org

The upstream maintainer is allowed to do things different 
than Debian, but only if he has good reasons to do so.


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