Re: Ironies abound
Scripsit Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
> It would be useful, before proposing a GR to do so, to have a list of
> all the packages currently in main which would become non-free if this
> clause were abolished, as well as any well-known licenses which might be
> affected.
Did we ever find concrete evidence that TeX comes with a license to
create modified versions under different names? The copyright notice
at the top of tex.web presents only the patch option, and
/usr/share/doc/tetex-bin/copyright is not of much help.
--
Henning Makholm "Ambiguous cases are defined as those for which the
compiler being used finds a legitimate interpretation
which is different from that which the user had in mind."
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