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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:31:56 +0200
To: Roland Stigge <stigge@debian.org>
From: Mats Dahlgren <matsd@sssk.se>
Subject: Re: latex2html non-free?
Cc: nikos@cbl.leeds.ac.uk, 204684-quiet@bugs.debian.org
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At 11:28 2003-10-13, Roland Stigge wrote:
>Hi,
>
>at Debian, we would have to remove the package latex2html from our
>distribution because of license issues we consider non-free [1] if the
>license doesn't change. Please consider releasing latex under a license
>suitable for Free Software / Open Source distributions.
>
>The license parts in question are:
i don't mind letting you distribute 'floatflt', or any package derived from
that package, under the LPPL license.
hope this helps.
bets regards,
mats d.
>floatflt.ins (by Mats Dahlgren):
>% Copyright (c) 1994-1998 by Mats Dahlgren <matsd@sssk.se>,
>% http://www.homenet.se/matsd/ . All rights reserved.
>%
>% You may use the `floatflt' package freely, but at your own
>% risk. The authors of floatflt.dtx and floatflt.ins (the
>% complete `floatflt' package distribution) can not be held
>% responsible for any consequence of your using any of these
>% files, or files created from these, including hardware,
>% software, and data damage. You may not make any changes to
>% the files floatflt.dtx or floatflt.ins. You are allowed to make
>% changes to the `\documentclass' and/or `\usepackage' commands
>% of the file `floatexm.tex'. You may incorporate
>% the code from these files in other files under different
>% names, provided the original authors are given full credit for
>% their work and that you yourself take the complaints from the
>% user(s) of your file(s). You may freely distribute the
>% files floatflt.dtx and floatflt.ins, provided: 1. You do not
>% take money for the distribution or use of these files except
>% for a nominal charge for diskettes and postage; and 2. You
>% always distribute `floatflt.dtx' and `floatflt.ins' together
>% at the same time.
>
>/usr/share/doc/latex2html/copyright (by Nikos Drakos):
>o No fees or compensation are charged for use, copies, or
> access to this software. You may charge a nominal
> distribution fee for the physical act of transferring a
> copy, but you may not charge for the program itself.
>
>Our guidelines forbid us to distribute software whose redistribution is
>restricted (here: no fee is allowed at all) and changes are not allowed.
>It would be nice to have latex2html licensed under a free (in our sense)
>license, e.g. the GPL. At least, free redistribution and modification
>(and in turn, its redistribution) would be needed.
>
>Thanks for considering.
>
>Roland Stigge
>Debian Project
>
>[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=204684
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