Bug#263549: tetex-extra: floatflt is free
Prakash Countcham <prakash.countcham@imag.fr> wrote:
> Package: tetex-extra
> Version: 2.0.2b-3
> Followup-For: Bug #263549
>
> Hi,
>
> I looked at floatflt.ins in the package latex2html, and it says :
>
> % Additionally, Mats Dahlgren <matsd@sssk.se> allowed us (Debian)
> % to distribute this file under the LPPL license:
> %
> % Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:31:56 +0200
> % To: Roland Stigge <stigge@debian.org>
> % From: Mats Dahlgren <matsd@sssk.se>
> %
> % [...]
> % i don't mind letting you distribute 'floatflt', or any
> % package derived from that package, under the LPPL license.
> % [...]
That's an interesting thing.
> Futhermore, in the package tetex-src, the package 'floatflt' is also
> distributed under LPPL.
>
> So why having removed it ?
The license in tetex-src is also non-free, as discussed earlier in the
bug.
We were not aware of the mail to Roland Stigge, of course. But we also
know what the author writes on his website - it seems to be clear there
that he does definitely not want LPPL.
Roland, I'm not completely happy with a mail citation that consists
"mainly" of omission signs. Did you talk with Mats about the difference
between LPPL and the intention he expresses on his website, at
http://www.homenet.se/matsd/latex/copyright.htm
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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