Re: Bug#326772: Processed: bug clone
On 06.09.05 Peter S Galbraith (psg@debian.org) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
Hi,
http://bugs.debian.org/170773
> > My suggestion is now to deliver the updated version in your package.
> > Our tetex-bin package delivers until 3.0-7 that file in
> > /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/cweb.el so please make sure the
> > Conflicts, Replaces lines etc. are set correct. The tetex-bin in that
> > version is unfortunately not yet in unstable so maybe it is a better
> > idea to delay the fix a little bit.
>
> I see.
>
> An infortunate side-effect of accepting this is that the instable
> version of emacs-goodies-el has always been installable on stable.
> This conflict will make that very difficult.
>
> There's really no need for the conflict. cweb.el would be packaged
> as /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/cweb.el and would
> have priority over the other version in the load-path.
>
OK, great!
> Now for my problem... I've extracted cwebm.el from
> cweb_files.tar.gz and I see no copyright notice. It doesn't
> directly `load' any Emacs code so perhaps it doesn't need to be
> GPL'ed, but it needs a copyright notice of some sort. It is
> assumed to have the same license as TeX? Does the license permit
> the modification being released under the same name? I recall
> there's something funky about that in the TeX license...
>
The cweb.el sits in the teTeX sources in texk/web2c/cwebdir. Also
there in is a file README, I'm attaching. The most important part is:
% Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
% this document provided that the copyright notice and this
% permission notice are preserved on all copies.
% Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of
% this document under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided
% that the entire resulting derived work is given a different name
% and distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to
% this one.
% Please send comments, suggestions, etc. to
% levy <at> math.berkeley.edu .
% This directory contains the following files:
cweb.el
So, either we distribute that file as cwebm.el (or any other name) and
have a mark in the header, that this is an replacement for cweb.el or
we try to contact Silvio Levy.
Max, is that acceptable for you? Any other suggestions?
Regards,
Hilmar
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