Bug#473216: texlive-latex-extra: foilhtml.sty undistributable?

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> On 20.04.08 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
>> Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
>> > On Sa, 19 Apr 2008, Francesco Poli wrote:
>
> Hi *;
>
>> >> While you are at changing the place where LPPL text lives, I think that
>> >> you could just paste it *inside* the debian/copyright file, as mandated
>> >> by Debian Policy [1].
>> >
>> > Yup, 97 * LPPL.txt, great idea ...
>> > 	97 * 19110 = 1.8Mb more space
>> > Ok ... if you think that is a good idea.
>> 
>> We could ask whether the lppl can be included in
>> /usr/share/common-licenses. 
>> 
> ACK! Is it enough to file a wishlist bug against base-files? 

I'm not sure; there has been some discussion whether the contents of
that directory should be defined by the Policy document, and some bugs
have been reassigned to policy; but I'm not sure what the conclusion
was. 

> I'd
> request to include all available versions of LPPL there.

Rather not; AFAIK only the LPPL v 1.3a or later is regarded as
DFSG-free, so a package which is exclusively under "LPPL 1.1 and no
later version" would be non-free.

Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)