Re: Splitting teTeX
Hi Richard,
I am on vacation at the moment and had some weeks no mail access. This
is why you got no response from me.
Richard Stallman writes:
> Thomas Essen has agreed to split out the non-free parts from
> teTeX--but now he could use help in doing the work.
>
> Since the Debian packages have already split them, you ought to be in
> a position to do this very effectively. But he hasn't seen a response
> from you in the discussion. Are you willing to help?
>
> Whatever the answer is, please respond so we can be sure.
I am willing to help but am not shure if I really have all the time
and the knowledge to do it. What I did for Debian is that I tried to
split out the nonfree packages of teTeX. But I mostly relied on the
input of other people who pointed me to files that were not free.
Most of the work however did Thomas Esser himself who looked over the
files, contacted the maintainers of some of the packages and tried to
convince them to switch to lppl. The packages that would not switch to
a free lincense he removed completely from teTeX. The goal was to have
no nonfree packages in teTeX.
So at the moment the only packages in tetex-nonfree of Debian are
packages still with a nonfree license in teTeX but with notice from
the author that that will change. (I hope I give this correclty,
Thomas).
If it comes to the splitting of teTeX to smaller pieces, I think I am
the wrong person, because my knowledge of TeX is not that good that I
can find all the dependencies. (See the mail from Thomas about that
issue.) Thomas has split teTeX himself for the installation binary
packages. He gave me the regex's he used for that, which I proposed to
use for Debian as well. I don't know if these packing is dependency
free or not.
Christoph
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