Re: detex

[Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>]

On 25 Mar 2004, frank@debian.org wrote:

> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> schrieb:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> Maybe this is a little off topic but couldn't detex be included in
>> tetex-extra?
>
> If at all, then we would have to discuss this with teTeX's upstream
> maintainer, Thomas Esser. A separate package would also be an
> option, however:
>
>> The package however is not exactly under GPL as far as I can see.
>
> It's non-free, really badly non-free. Probably it could not even be
> put in the non-free archive: There's no permission at all to
> distribute binaries.
>
> Do you think we should contact the upstream author to clarify his
> license - or would you be willing to do it?
>
> Regards, Frank
Hi

You mean the  Autor of detex, sure  I try to contact  him, now  that I
think of it, some month ago David  Kastrup tried to contact him, since
there was a  nifty   elisp package  to  count words  in  tex document,
detexing it before.

Regards

Uwe