Hi, [ Quoting full text because that should go to -legal; cc'ing -legal ] Martin Pitt wrote: > Hi! > > I am currently packaging latex-ucs (see #160953), being mentored and > sponsored by Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>. The package is I wasn't sure about the LPPL issues; I remember some discussions in the last moths and searched, but I haven't found a conclusion in the archives... > currently licensed under the LaTeX Project Public License (see > http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt) with the following additions by > upsteam: > > This program may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions > of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.1 of this > license or (at your option) any later version, with the following > extensions: > > - distribution may omit the files data/uninames.dat and > ucs-doc.dvi > > - The directory structure may be changed > > - The data/uni-*.def files may be regenerated via makeunidef.pl > from a valid set of config/*.def files without changing the former's > names, whereby a valid set of config/*.ucf files consists of the > original files and any local additions in separate files, whereby > any characters defined in these should only be accessible via an > option which starts with the five letters 'local'. (See the > documentation files for a description of the technical terms and > names in this paragraph). > > Since I want to split up the package in several (base, -dev, -doc, > -contrib), I contacted upsteam who added the following permission: > > - A distribution may split the package into smaller packages, as long > as this fact is visible to the user and the user may easily install > the complete UCS package (e.g. by installing all small packages). > > Since the LPPL is quite restrictive, I'm not sure whether the LPPL + > upstream's additions can be seen as DFSG-free. > > The most recent of the (few) statements about the LPPL can be found at > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/1999/debian-legal-199911/msg00145.html > However, the thread was not very exhausting, so I'm asking again. > > It would be nice if answers are cc'ed to me since I'm not subscribed > to d-legal. > > Thanks in advance! > > Martin Regards, Rene -- .''`. Rene Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' rene@debian.org | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB73
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