Bug#65961: tetex-base/tetex-nonfree: serious license problems
Notwithstanding the comments below, this should still be clarified in
potato, and the licenses clarified. There mustn't be any non-free
stuff in a free source package.
Julian
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 11:50:51PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
>
> > Package: tetex-base
> > Version: 1.0-10
> > Severity: important
> >
> > I just noticed that at the moment, tetex-base builds tetex-nonfree.
> > This means that Debian source CDs will contain the source for
> > tetex-nonfree. This is a real problem, and should be addressed for
> > potato. Are there any license problems in distributing tetex-nonfree
> > on CD?
> >...
>
> tetex-nonfree contains only the following packages (besides seminar)):
>
> koma: licence changed and is DFSG-free now
> nehyph: General permission for non-profit usage is granted.
> textmerg:
> %% Copyright (C) 1992,1994 Mike Piff, University of Sheffield, England
> %%
> %% You are not allowed to change this file.
> %%
> %% You are NOT ALLOWED to distribute this file alone. You are NOT
> %% ALLOWED to take money for the distribution or use of this
> %% file except for a nominal charge for copying etc.
>
>
> > Note that seminar should no longer be in non-free; it's licensed under
> > the LPPL, and that most of /usr/share/doc/copyright.seminar.gz should
> > actually be called something like /usr/share/doc/README.seminar.gz.
>
> seminar already moved to tetex-extra in the woody version.
>
> > I don't know if there's a newer version of stmaryrd.sty around, but
> > the current one says:
> >...
>
> The copyright was changed to:
>
> %
> % This document is copyright \copyright~1991--1994 Alan Jeffrey.%
> % The St Mary's Road fonts are copyright \copyright~1991--1994 Jeremy
> % Gibbons and Alan Jeffrey. All rights are reserved.
> % The moral right of the authors has been asserted.
> %
> % This package may be distributed under the terms of the LaTeX Project
> Public
> % License, as described in lppl.txt in the base LaTeX distribution.
> % Either version 1.0 or, at your option, any later version.
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