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Bug#345604: ConTeXt documentation is non-free



On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 07:27 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Package: tetex-doc
> Version: 3.0-11
> Severity: serious
> 
> The license is clearly non-free:
> 
> | All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
> | stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any
> | means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise,
> | without prior written permission of the publisher.

(from /usr/share/doc/texmf/context/manual/cont-eni.pdf.gz)

This sounds bad, indeed. However, I think that the ConTeXt manual is
actually covered by the general ConTeXt license in
/usr/share/doc/texmf/context/base/mreadme.pdf.gz and
/usr/share/doc/texmf/context/base/LICENSE.teTeX, which is free.

cheerio
ralf




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