On 11.09.05 Sean Finney (seanius@debian.org) wrote: Hi Sean, > i just happened to be browsing around in /usr/share and found the > following in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/seminar/xcomment.sty: > > %% Copying of part or all of any file in the xcomment.sty package > %% is allowed under the following conditions only: > %% (1) You may freely distribute unchanged copies of the files. Please > %% include the documentation when you do so. > %% (2) You may modify a renamed copy of any file, but only for personal > %% use or use within an organization. > %% (3) You may copy fragments from the files, for personal use or for use > %% in a macro package for distribution, as long as credit is given > %% where credit is due. > %% > %% You are NOT ALLOWED to take money for the distribution or use of > %% these files or modified versions or fragments thereof, except for > %% a nominal charge for copying etc. > /usr/share/texmf/doc/latex/seminar/sem-read.me.gz: With the agreement of Timothy Van Zandt (now tvz@zandtwerk.kellogg.nwu.edu), the distributions conditions on seminar are now relaxed to: 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. This overrides the conditions listed below. A new version of "seminar" is in preparation by Timothy van Zandt. . And below we find the conditions you quoted. I'll contact Tim if we can patch the files and replace the lines above by something like: "see sem-read.me.gz for copyright conditions" . Is that acceptable? teTeX 2.0 was released under 1.2 but AFAIK this is OK for sarge. etch will have teTeX 3.0 and LPPL 1.3. The same wording we still have in 3.0. > i don't know how many other latex-included files have copyrights > like this, but it is definitely not okay... > Well, the big revision is on the way (or rather not): #218105. Regards, Hilmar -- http://www.hilmar-preusse.de.vu/ #206401 http://counter.li.org
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