Re: license questions with hyphenation patterns for FBReader
"Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jackyf.devel@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Debian legal folks! (please CC me in answers)
[...]
> I assume GPL, LGPL and Public Domain files are safe, as usually, but Latex Project Public
> License is new for me, and I am wondering can modifications of files under this license be
> placed in Debian archive as they are included in upstream tarball.
> [1] http://fbreader.org/fbreader-sources-0.10.2.tgz, file
> fbreader/zlibrary/text/data/hyphenationPatterns.zip
The relevant claim in eo.pattern is:-
% This program can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms
% of the LaTeX Project Public License Distributed from CTAN
% archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; either
% version 1 of the License, or any later version.
I think "any later version" saves us here. Branden Robinson advised
on how to make LPPL 1.3 follow the DFSG clearly, summarised in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/07/msg00079.html
without obvious dissent. LPPL also appears on the list of main
licences I collected at http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/
So I think the above is fine. If I'm wrong, I hope someone will correct me!
Hope that helps,
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