Bug#477060: [Barbara Beeton] texlive license

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

From: Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>
Subject: Re: [tex-live] texlive license
To: tex-live@tug.org
Cc: 363061@bugs.debian.org
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:46:18 +0200

Barbara Beeton <bnb@ams.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Karl Berry wrote:
>
>     [...]
>
>     I asked Barbara Beeton at the AMS about taking care of the pcatcode
>     madness, in hopes we can get a free version shortly.  I'm sure they did
>     not intend the current situation.
>
> the current situation was absolutely not
> intended.  the person who now maintains
> amsrefs will change the license information
> for pcatcode to lppl, and the new version
> will be posted as soon as i've been told
> that the change has been made.
>
> the rest of amsrefs will be modified similarly,
> as will all ams-latex files, effective with
> the next regular update, expected (probably)
> sometime in 2008.

Thanks for the news.  Will the 2008 update also contain clarifications
of the amslatex license itself[1], or will that not be sorted out in
time? 

Thanks for your work, 
Frank


[1] as we discussed earlier, the main license text has ambiguous wording
regarding modifications, and there are a couple of files under unclear
licenses. 

-- 
Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)




-- 
Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)