Bug#62775: tetex-doc: tetex-doc contains non-free documentation (stmaryrd)

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

severity 62775 important
severity 62776 important
thanks

These bugs are important because stmaryrd has to be removed from tetex
before potato is released.


On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Kristoffer Rose wrote:

> Package: tetex-doc
> Version: 1.0-8
> Severity: normal
> 
> The St. Mary's Road font document (stmaryrd.dvi.gz) explicitly states
> that one is not allowed to make a profit from distributing it.  This
> clearly makes it nonfree.

It's even worse:

bunk@fania:~$ dpkg -S stmaryrd.sty
tetex-extra: /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/stmaryrd.sty
bunk@fania:~$

/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/stmaryrd.sty says:

%% IMPORTANT NOTICE:
%% 
%% For the copyright see the source file.
%% 
%% You are *not* allowed to modify this file.
%% 
%% You are *not* allowed to distribute this file.
%% For distribution of the original source see
%% the terms for copying and modification in the file  stmaryrd.dtx.


The "You are *not* allowed to distribute this file." excludes stmaryrd
even from tetex-nonfree.


cu,
Adrian

-- 
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a
"Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
                -- Mahatma Ghandi