Re: tetex is incomplete! waiting for sponsor
From: Colin Marquardt <colin@marquardt-home.de>
Subject: Re: tetex is incomplete! waiting for sponsor
Date: 28 Jul 2000 01:22:42 -0700
> And rightfully so. The distribution even bears his initials. But
> my point was more in the direction that the lack of foiltex doesn't
> make tetex unusable, not even insufficient. And then, it is easy to
> install it by hand.
Yes, of course there are users who think like you but
it is also true that a user requested foiltex package
as a necessary component of TeX.
> > And I guess that tetex-maint of Debian helps to do so.
>
> Fighting for DFSG-freeness of the distribution is part of the social
> contract, no?
Well I might give you a wrong impression but I wanted to
say "I am very proud that tetex-maint of Debian helps to make
teTeX completely free."
> > Then what is tetex-nonfree? I heard it is macro packages,
> > authors of which have intention to change their licenses
> > to free one. And please note that tetex-nonfree of the
> > current woody contains only textmerg and nehyph[1,2].
>
> > In the past it contained, at least, several macro packages.
>
> Maybe they didn't want to change their licenses. Maybe we should
> have a tex-nonfree in addition to tetex-nonfree to make clear that
> the sources are not part of tetex.
Yes, they have changed their licenses. Here also, I might give
you a wrong impression (sorry for my poor english). The fact that
tetex-nonfree is getting smaller does not mean some components of
teTeX disappeared completely from tetex-* packages but means
that some components of tetex-nonfree were moved to tetex-base
or tetex-extra packages.
'foiltex' is very rare case which was removed completely from
teTeX.
Only one poit I want to say is that even outside of teTeX
there might be useful macro packages and if there are users
who need them then isn't it good to provide them for Debian?
I think foiltex is one of such macro packages. There is one
more such macro package 'pb-diagram' which is useful for drawing
commutative diagram and under GPL!
I am also looking for a sponsor of pb-diagram and, of course,
this one can be in main.
Best Regards, 2000.7.29
--
Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.
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