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- To: Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>
- Subject: Re: Fixing teTeX's license violation in Debian; new license for cs stuff?
- From: Petr Olsak <petr@olsak.net>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:33:17 +0200 (CEST)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0607131603060.5559-100000@newton.feld.cvut.cz>
- In-reply-to: <86r71c142i.fsf@alhambra.kuesterei.ch>
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Frank [iso-8859-1] Küster wrote:
> Hi Petr,
Hi Frank,
I am sorry, I saved your e-mail to my "to-do stack", but this stack was
filled up suddenly. Now, I return to my old rests.
> I've got two questions regarding csTeX stuff. The first is: As
> promised, I want to fix the license violation within Debian by updating
> to the new version from CTAN. However, this is more work than I
> thought, because the Debian package is based on the original teTeX
> tarball plus diff.gz, and I will have to recreate the tarball. Since
> I'll need to do that later, anyway, I'd rather postpone this solution.
>
> As a short-term solution, is it possible to just take the three ini
> files from the current version and install them along with the old files
> already included in teTeX-3.0?
Roughly speaking: Yes.
I am managing only two .ini files: csplain.ini, cslatex.ini. The
third .ini file cseplain.ini is very simple copy of csplain.ini
done by Yenya Kasprzak.
FYI I attach my email which I sent to Thomas Esser and Sebastian Rahtz
at March 3 2005:
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Hello,
please, update contents of three CSTeX files in your TeX distribution.
These files are attached in this e-mail.
The description of the changes follows.
csplain.ini: new macro-code solves the following:
* possibility of non-pdf csplain initialisation by pdftex
* The pdftexconfig.tex is read during pdfcsplain initialisation
if this file exists.
t1code.tex: bug in \uccodes removed.
cslatex.ini: similar as csplain.ini
The csplain.ini and t1code.tex files belong to csplain package and
cslatex.ini belongs to cslatex package (but may be it is not
important for you).
Thank you very much.
Petr Olsak
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This implies that the "third file" is t1code.tex.
> The second question: Have you come to a conclusion regarding the future
> license of the cs stuff? As I understood it, you weren't aware of the
> problems of your mixed license (GPL + renaming clause) and needed some
> thinking (probably without being yelled at on the mailing lists...).
I plan to keep the meaning of my licesne in csplain.ini the same but to
change the text in csplain.ini file in order to the word "GPL" will be not
mentioned. Simply speaking: You can do anything with csplain code but you
cannot expect any warranty from me and you cannot distribute the
csplain.ini, csfonts.tex, il2code.tex, t1code.tex, hyphen.lan and
plaina4.tex files in changed form.
Note, that this "license problem" is related only to csplain files, no to
all CSTeX. CSTeX has many authors with different licensions (similar as
whole teTeX).
Best regards
Petr Olsak
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