is listing.sty free ?
Hi all,
We Debian tetex-maintainer got the following bug
From: Gunther Laure <gunnar2@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at>
Subject: Bug#171348: listing.sty returns Package keyval errors
Date: 01 Dec 2002 18:37:42 +0100
> When using listing.sty and \lstset, latex returns package keyval errors.
> The keywords stringspaces, labelstyle, labelstep, labelsep and indent
> seem not to supported.
and I found the following statements of listing.sty
while I checked it;
%% (w)(c) 1996 -- 2002 Carsten Heinz and/or any other author
%% listed elsewhere in this file.
%%
%% This file is distributed under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public
%% License from CTAN archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt.
%% Either version 1.0 or, at your option, any later version.
%%
%% Permission is granted to modify the listings package as well as
%% lstdrvrs.dtx. You are not allowed to distribute a modified version
%% of the package or lstdrvrs.dtx unless you change the file names and
%% provide the original files. In any case it is better to contact the
%% address below; other users will welcome removed bugs, new features,
%% and additional programming languages.
%%
%% The listings package is free software.
%%
%% However, if you distribute the package as part of a commercial
%% product or if you use the package to prepare a commercial document
%% (books, journals, and so on), I'd like to encourage you to make a
%% donation to the LaTeX3 fund. The size of this `license fee' should
%% depend on the value of the package for your product. For more
%% information about LaTeX see http://www.latex-project.org
%%
%% No matter whether you use the package for a commercial or
%% non-commercial document, please send me a copy of the document (.dvi,
%% .ps, .pdf, hardcopy, etc.) to support further development---it is
%% easier to introduce new features or simplify things if I see how the
%% package is used by other people.
I doubt that the latter part of the above statements
could be accepted as free software, at least, I guess
it might be not DSFG-free.
"I'd like to encourage you to .." might be acceptable but
"please send me a copy .." is very doubtful, I feel.
Is this license okay for teTeX distribution ?
# The bug itself is another issue.
Best regards, 2002/12/2
--
Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.
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