Bug#263549: floatflt is non-free

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 05.08.04 Josh Triplett (josh.trip@verizon.net) wrote:

Hi,

> 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):
> 
floatflt has been removed from that latest Debian packages.

  * Removed floatflt which was non-free.  [kohda]  (Closed: #263549)

Closing.

> 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
> 
Is there a bug filed against tex4ht?

> 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
> 

H.
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