Re: [tex-live] picins is missing from tex-live

[Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk>]

Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> wrote:

>     picins from CTAN/macros/latex209/contrib/picins might still be useful,
> 
> I don't have an objection in principle to including stuff written for
> latex209, but I was told that picins was nonfree.  (I can't read the
> German and don't remember the details any more.)  I removed it back on
> 2005/10/26 for that reason, according to the logs.

at a quick scan (my german isn't very good) i see no sign of a licence
statement.  i think the catalogue has it right: licence unknown.  :-(

aiui, this means it's not something you can hold, though i note
christian does in miktex...

robin