Bug#210450: documentation essential.dvi.gz missing
"SG" == Stefan Gräf <graef@biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de> writes:
Stefan & Other teTeX-Maint Folks,
SG> After upgrading tetex-doc from stable (1.0.2+20011202) to
SG> testing (2.0.2-4.1) we missed the documentation
SG> essential.dvi.gz prior locateted in
SG> /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex/general/.
It looks like this material was dropped upstream. The copyright
notice on the file essential.tex reads as follows:
% Copyright (C) Jon Warbrick and Plymouth Polytechnic 1989
% Permission is granted to reproduce the document in any way providing
% that it is distributed for free, except for any reasonable charges for
% printing, distribution, staff time, etc. Direct commercial
% exploitation is not permitted. Extracts may be made from this
% document providing an acknolwledgment of the original source is
% maintained.
The restrictions on charging for the document and on ``direct
commercial exploitation'' could be interpreted as violating the
first or fifth clauses of the DFSG.
SG> Do you have any idea where to find the documentation now?
SG> We weren't able to find it in any other package on the
SG> debian webserer.
As it was dropped upstream, you won't be able to find it in any
current Debian packages. It is available on CTAN, however, at
<http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/latex-essential/?filename=info/latex-essential/&preferredCTAN=ctan.math.utah.edu&action=/tools/filesearch&catstring=info/latex-essential/>
If we get a consensus that the license on essential.tex is
DFSG-free, we may be able to convince Thomas Esser to include it
in a future teTeX release or package it separately.
Claire
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Man cannot be civilised, or be kept civilised by what he does in his
spare time; only by what he does as his work.
W.R. Lethaby
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C.M. Connelly cmc@debian.org SHC, DS
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