Package: tetex-extra Version: 2.0.2a-2 Severity: serious The floatflt package has the following license, seen in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/floatflt.sty : %% Copyright (c) 1994-1998 by Mats Dahlgren <matsd@sssk.se>. %% All rights reserved. See the file `floatflt.ins' for information %% on how you may (re-)distribute the `floatflt' package files. %% You are not allowed to make any changes to this file without %% explicit permission from the author. This is clearly non-free, violating DFSG3. The file "floatflt.ins" is not included in the binary package or the source package; the version at http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/floatflt/floatflt.ins gives the following license (also found on the author's website): % 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'. u 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. This license is clearly non-free as well, violating DFSG3 and DFSG6. (Note that not including this license in debian/copyright would be a bug even if the license was Free. Also, note that the source code, consisting of floatflt.ins and floatflt.dtx, was not included in the source package.) This affects the following files at a minimum: tetex-doc: /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex/floatflt/floatexm.dvi.gz tetex-doc: /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex/floatflt tex4ht: /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/tex4ht/floatflt.4ht tetex-doc: /usr/share/doc/texmf/help/Catalogue/entries/floatflt.html tetex-doc: /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex/floatflt/floatfge.dvi.gz tetex-doc: /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex/floatflt/floatexm.tex.gz tetex-extra: /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/floatflt.sty tetex-doc: /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex/floatflt/floatflt.dvi.gz After removal, the author should be contacted and asked if he would be willing to consider relicensing the files under the current version of the LPPL. The CTAN entry for floatflt claims it is under the LPPL, but I found nothing that actually places it under that license. - Josh Triplett
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