Bug#477152: /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/computational-complexity/cc4llncs.sty: Non-free, non-distributable

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> wrote:

> The terms which apply to the original source do not matter here.  The
> license on the file I pointed to forbids distribution and
> modification, yet Debian distributes it in main.

We have just talked about this in #473216. The same objections were
raised there, Cc'ing the submitter.  

I can only repeat what I wrote in that bug report:

,----
| If you want to discuss specific aspects of the LPPL, I think you'd
| better 
| 
| - read it carefully first
| 
| - read the (quite lengthy) discussions on debian-legal about it
| 
| - discuss it with people who are interested in that, e.g. on
|   debian-legal.
| 
|   Myself, I just take it for granted that a license which has been
|   drafted together by the LaTeX team and some debian-legal regulars, and
|   been reviewed and finally approved on that list, is DFSG-free. And I
|   have no interest in discussing this; we have indeed more severe
|   licensing problems in texlive; the woeful copyright file is just a
|   symptom of that.
`----

And now would you please go to debian-legal and not stop me from working
on important license issues in TeXLive?

Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)