Re: About the license of the algorithms
Hi all!
On Don, 02 Nov 2006, Rogério Brito wrote:
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-tex/tetex-base/trunk/debian/tpm/algorithms.tpm?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
>
> Does it mean that algorithms may have a problem with licenses? Do you
> need any further information from me?
Why? It states that the license is LGPL, same as the TeX Catalogue. Is
this wrong?
> I plan, BTW, given the request of many users in the last few months, to
> implement some new features and upload a new version of algorithms.
Upload it to CTAN, it will end up in TeX Live 2006, and so in Debian. Or
you (or someone) creates its own Debian package.
> I would love if this were included in TeX Live (or teTeX, but I
> understand that Frank is willing to let teTeX be "frozen" the way that
> Thomas Esser left it, with just fixes that are really important for it
> to be usable in Debian).
$ dlocate algorithmic.sty
texlive-latex-extra: /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/algorithms/algorithmic.sty
So it is already there...
> So, is there anything that should be made to keep the license of
> algorithms kosher?
Where do you see problems???
Best wishes
Norbert
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