Bug#345604: How to deal with teTeX's and texlive's RC licensing bugs

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:

> The consequences of these guidelines for the tex licensing bugs seem to be
> as follows:
>
> 345604:
>   ConTeXt upstream says they aren't interested in relicensing; RC bug.

This is already solved, ConTeXt documentation is in tetex-doc-nonfree

>   csname.txt: etch-ignore (due to blanket license statement?).

Yes, it's part of AMSTeX which has a general license statement.

>   unixtex.ftp: etch-ignore.
>   l2tabuen.pdf, pdftex-a.pdf, fontinstallationguide.pdf, l2kurz.pdf:
>     ok per the GFDL GR

All are already in tetex-doc-nonfree.  We can put l2tabuen.pdf,
pdftex-a.pdf and l2kurz.pdf back into tetex-doc.  However,
fontinstallationguide contains fonts that are non-free, or in other
words we do not have the complete source for this PDF file.

>   l2tabu.pdf: ok per James Troup in bug #384019 (?)

already in tetex-doc-nonfree, can be moved back

>   doc/encspecs/ and examples: etch-ignore.

So this all is already resolved.  However, there are more issues in this
bug that should be resolved, in particular files without source:

- The TeX Catalogue, source at
   cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.texcatalogue.sarovar.org:/cvsroot/texcatalogue export  -r HEAD texcatalogue

   (needs python-xml)

- tds.dvi: Sources at http://www.tug.org/ftp/tex/tds/ or
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/tds/ 

- faq: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/uk-tex-faq/

I've written earlier in this bug:

,----
| Since we should really check other docs as well, I'm retitling this one,
| and we'll keep it open until every document has been checked. 
`----

However, since we're not going to finish the complete auditing (which
covers TeX input files, not only documentation), I'm closing this in the
next changelog entry.


Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)