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

[Manuel Pegourie-Gonnard <mpg@elzevir.fr>]

Hi,

Frank Küster a écrit :
> 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.  
> 
Hmm... looking carefully at the files in the computational-complexity latex
package (esp. the .ins file) one can see that the incriminated phrases are
really from the package's author, and not inserted by default by docstrip. I
mean, perhaps the author copied them from the docstrip default phrases, but
he also added some details of his own.

So I feel like there's two independent problems here:

1. Computational-complexity's author made contradictory licenses statements
by stating on one hand that the work is under LPPL and on the other hand
that the generated files are not distributable. This should be fixed by
telling the author since it is certainly not intended.

2. Docstrip's default text assumes something about the licenses, which IMHO
it shouldn't do. This is technically unrelated to the current bug, but maybe
related in the sense that cc's author could have thought that the best thing
to do was to copy docstrip's default header.

Anyway, the LPPL is obviously not the problem here, but rather the way that
people sometimes get confused while trying to use it.

Regards,
Manuel.