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Re: equivalent of tetex-src in Debian TeX-Live?



On 07.12.07 Norbert Preining (preining@logic.at) wrote:

Hi Norbert,

> stay cool ... ;-)
> 
Ich bin so cool, da�Du ein Schnitzel monatelang in mir aufbewahren
kannst (Zaphod Beeblebrox). Feel free to re-translate into English.
:-)

> On Fr, 07 Dez 2007, Hilmar Preusse wrote:

> > IIRC the only reason to provide tetex-src was a clause in the
> > LPPL that a "Compiled Work" (sty-, dvi file) has to be given out
> > together with its source (dtx file), which is not the case any
> > more in the TeX Live packets of Debian (AFAICT).
> 
> > Just a reminder.... mdwtab itself is GPL, so the mdwtab.dtx *has*
> > to be shipped and this *is* a GPL violation. IMHO.
> 
> The source is present in 
> 	texlive-base_2007.orig.tar.gz
> 
> When a GPL program is installed the sources are never installed
> with it, but are available in the orig package. Same here.
> 
OK: #232850 still applies to the file in question. Where should I
re-assing the bug now?

H.
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