Re: Draft new DFSG

[Navindra Umanee <navindra@cs.mcgill.ca>]

Montreal Thu Nov 26 08:09:35 1998

Anselm Lingnau <lingnau@tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
> Anyway, even RMS considers TeX free enough to declare it part of a GNU
> system. We'd look quite silly if we were to pronounce TeX non-free.

Didn't realise RMS's word had any weight with Debian...  :)

Here's RMS's take on the QPL, he pronounces it free:

http://x15.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=414217499&CONTEXT=912085636.31326308&hitnum=0

(sorry for the long URL)

Cheers,
Navin