Bug#274868: Non-free file license in tetex-base

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Hello Philip, 

a couple of days ago, Thomas Esser wrote:

> Frank Küster wrote:
>> a Debian user has found that there is a file in teTeX with a non-free
>> license:
>
> Thanks. I'll take that file out of my current beta. I'll put it back if
> that file gets a free software license.
>
>> ,----
>> | This file, "letterspacing.tex", created by Philip Taylor of RHBNC
>> | (P.Taylor@Mail.Rhbnc.Ac.Uk) for Kaveh Bazargan of Focal Image
>> | (Kaveh@Focal.Demon.Co.Uk) may be freely distributed provided that
>> | no changes whatsoever are made to its contents
>> `----
>>
>> > There is no other text to suggest that changing the
>> > filename or distributing with patch files would be
>> > acceptable to the author.
>>
>> This is still the same in the current beta, and I think it is also not
>> compliant to the policy you follow for teTeX.
>
> Right.
>
>> Do you know anything about the upstream authors? I couldn't find really
>> recent hits for them on Google, but the most recent ones (2003 and 2001,
>> respectively) indicated the old addresses.
>
> I have added Philip Taylor with a hopefully working email adress to Cc:.

Are you planning any changes? If not, we will have to upload new Debian
teTeX Packages without the file.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer