Re: tex4ht - Debian package (fwd)
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> ** Please trim the recipient list as appropriate. **
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 04:35:44PM +0000, Andrew Gray wrote:
> > Basically, he would like a licence
> > like that for the Knuth TeX programs themselves.
>
> Basically, the Knuth TeX programs are in public domain, but the name is
> trademarked.
>
> > tex4ht.c 1999-01-26-20-02
> > Copyright (C) 1996--99 Eitan M. Gurari
> >
> > This program is free software; you can redistribute
> > it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
> > General Public License as published by the Free
> > Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
> > License, or (at your option) any later version.
> >
> > However, if you modify this program, you must also
> > modify its signature or its name. Changes to the
> > signature can be introduced with a directive of the
> > form
> > #define PLATFORM "signature"
> >
> > This program is distributed in the hope that it
> > will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without
> > even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
> > FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
> > General Public License for more details.
> >
> > gurari@cis.ohio-state.edu
> > http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/mn.html
>
> It looks OK to me. However, license issues belong to debian-legal, not
> debian-mentors, so I'm crossposting.
Absolutely fine.
Name-change requirements are quite acceptable.
Jules
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