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Re: can foiltex be Debianized ?



Atsuhito Kohda writes:
 > From: Christoph Martin <martin@verwaltung.uni-mainz.de>
 > Subject: Re: can foiltex be Debianized ?
 > Date: 25 Oct 1999 15:45:26 +0200
 > 
 > > > tetex-base (0.9.990601-1) unstable; urgency=low
 > > > 
 > > >   * Upstream removes some nonfree packages, so they are no longer in
 > > >     tetex-base, -extra or nonfree. (foiltex, french)
 > > > 
 > > > But my main concern is;
 > > > 
 > > > > Is there any problem on license ?
 > > 
 > > Yes there is. The maintainer of foiltex did not supply an open
 > > license, so the upstream maintainer of teTeX removed it.
 > 
 > I see. Then the supplied license of foiltex is not enough
 > even for non-free section of Debian ?

That is not the point. I am just packaging what comes with upstream
teTeX. And since foiltex is no longer in there, it is not in
tetex-nonfree. There should be no problem to package foiltex
separately (, if someone does it).

Christoph


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