Bug#466697: removal of eqlist from TeX Live

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

severity 466697 normal
retitle 466697 please include license statement for eqlist
thanks

Dear Martin,

(forget the above lines, that are Debian dialect)

thanks for your quick response.

On Do, 21 Feb 2008, Vaeth wrote:
> already by uploading to CTAN and in the public announcements (of CTAN,
> e.g. on usenet) it was made clear that the package is under the lppl.

Unfortunately that is not necessarily the case, CTAN holds many
packages which are non-free (not for sale, or commercial), so only from
the occurrence on CTAN nobody can deduce this fact.

Furthermore, the TeX Catalogue which collects to some extend the license
information holds <license type='unknown'/>, so it was not known what
you actually wanted.

>    As for all of my other LaTeX packages on CTAN (varindex, toolbox, 
> guitar, ushort, ziffer), there is no detailed license within the file,
> since I considered the lppl clear from the context where the packages
> were published. The sentence

Good to know.

>   But to upload new versions of several years old packages without any
> actual change besides eliminating an unclear formulation on a
> non-technical issue appears rather strange to me.

Agreed. I would suggest one of two things: Uploading *only* a README
file stating that the following files:
	eqlist.dtx eqlist.ins
	varindex.dtx varindex.ins
	toolbox.dtx toolbox.ins
	guitar.dtx guitar.ins
	ushort.dtx ushort.ins
	ziffer.sty
are licensed under LPPL 1.3c or higher to CTAN and asking to put them
into the respective directories that would solve the issue.

I probably can even upload that for you if you prefer. A sample README
could be:
----------- 8< -----------------------
README for the packages 
  eqlist:   consisting of eqlist.dtx and eqlist.ins
  varindex: consisting of varindex.dtx and varindex.ins
  toolbox: consisting of toolbox.dtx and toolbox.ins
  ushort:   consisting of ushort.dtx and ushort.ins
  guitar:   consisting of guitar.dtx and guitar.ins
  ziffer:   consisting of ziffer.sty

Each of the above mentioned packages are
  Copyright 2001--2008 Martin Väth

and may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the
LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c of this license or (at
your option) any later version. The latest version of this license is in:
http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt, and version 1.3c or later is part of
all distributions of LaTeX version 2005/12/01 or later.
----------- 8< --------------------

>   I hope that you agree that we can avoid this unnecessary work for the
> CTAN maintainer, myself, and all other people who would install the new

If my above proposal is not acceptable for you it is still ok since we
can take your email as statement, but we would prefer if you upload at
least the README file.

Thanks a lot and all the best

Norbert

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Dr. Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>        Vienna University of Technology
Debian Developer <preining@debian.org>                         Debian TeX Group
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