Bug#251761: tetex-extra: caption.sty still missing despite license change
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> On 08.06.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
>> That shows the changes we have made yet, doesn't it? But [...]
>>
> Yes, it does. There a few files we can put back in out tar.gz and
> some we should take out.
O.K. - that way it makes sense.
>> > To be removed (or to be replaced by free versions): A few
>> > hyphenation files (#139900), psfig.sty (#182324). Anything else?
>>
>> Open bugs are:
>>
>> #182324 (psfig.sty)
>> #175623 (pandora font family)
>> #139900 (hyphenation files)
>>
>> I should be able to find out which of the non-free hyphenation
>> files are still non-free, and which have been put back into
>> tetex-3.0 because of a clarified/changed license.
>>
> So, what should we do then: Remove just the non-free from 2.0.2 or
> replace them by the free versions from 3.0?
I would say that if the authors just relicensed their (basically)
unchanged files, it is okay to keep them in the tarball in their old
versions - perhaps with a remark about the relicensing. If we have taken
something out yet, we can as well put in the relicensed new version.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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