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

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

# reported by Josh
severity 477152 important
# reported by Manuel
reopen 473216 
severity 473216 important
thanks

Manuel Pegourie-Gonnard <mpg@elzevir.fr> wrote:

> 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.

Agreed.  Still I do not think that this is a serious (RC) bug: If we
like, we can just take the source file which is under the LPPL, modify
it following the required procedures and while doing that change the
copying statement in the generated file. 

We do *not* like to fork that way, but it would be possible, therefore I
set the severity to important only, and do the same for the other bug
you (Manuel) reported.

> 2. Docstrip's default text assumes something about the licenses, 

This is what Norbert and I assumed, knowing the very same text from many
generated files. But it turned out that it is actually not true. I guess
that it once used to be true, and that is where the habit comes from to
put such a text in the file. Actually it might have been true with
older, non-DFSG-free versions of the LPPL.

Regards, Frank

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Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)