MJ Ray wrote: > "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! Thanks for look! -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com Ukrainian C++ Developer, Debian Maintainer, APT contributor
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