Re: [tex-live] floatflt unfree

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

Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> wrote:

> The logs of http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=263549 mention
> that the author of floatflt has given permission to distribute it under the
> LPPL.

however, unless he takes the trouble to mention it to the ctan team
(ctan@dante.de), the licence isn't going to get changed in the
catalogue, and it won't therefore make it to tex-live, so that debian
will need to pull it from ctan.

(i expended some effort trying to contact him, a while back, with no
response, so a spontaneous commission to debian and not the rest of the
world seems improbable.)

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team