Hilmar Preusse wrote: > On 05.08.04 Josh Triplett (josh.trip@verizon.net) wrote: >>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; > > No. It is in tetex-src. Interesting; why is it packaged in compiled form and not built from its source? >>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): > > The version from tetex-src tells me: > > % Copyright (c) 1994-1998 by Mats Dahlgren <matsd@sssk.se>, > % http://www.homenet.se/matsd/ . All rights reserved. > % > % This package may be distributed under the terms of the LaTeX Project > % Public License, as described in lppl.txt in the base LaTeX distribution. > % Either version 1.0 or, at your option, any later version. 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 that You always distribute `floatflt.dtx' and > % `floatflt.ins' together at the same time. > % > Yes, this is not DFSG either. I'll contact the author about this. > However, it won't help us in the actual situation. I guess we have to > generate another new orig.tar.gz.... The ideal case would be to have all but the first sentence removed, so that the package may be distributed under the current LPPL, with no additional restrictions. But yes, the file under the current license should be removed from the orig.tar.gz. >>(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.) > > Yes, we're on the way to write a proper copyright file. #218105 and > #258972, but I'm afraid that won't be finished before sarge. OK. This should probably be done at the same time as a complete license audit of tetex. (I may be able to help with such an audit at that time.) > The source is delivered separately in tetex-src. Again, just out of curiosity, why is the package not built from its source? >>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. > > I'll contact the author. Thank you. - Josh Triplett
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