Bug#511843: bibleref: Please update to newer version, relicensed under DFSG-free license

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Package: texlive-humanities
Version: 2007.dfsg.14-1
Severity: serious

Jan Hauke Rahm <info@jhr-online.de> wrote:

Thanks for reporting!

> Hmm, it's kind of sarcastic that working with the bible could be
> non-free, isn't it?
>
> $grep -A 4 modify /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/bibleref/bibleref.sty
>
> %% If you modify this file, you must change its name first.
> %% You are NOT ALLOWED to distribute this file alone. You are NOT
> %% ALLOWED to take money for the distribution or use of either this
> %% file or a changed version, except for a nominal charge for copying
> %% etc.

The version in TeXLive has indeed a non-free license text. Meanwhile,
upstream has relicensed the package under the LPPL 1.3, but AFAICS this
only applies to the new version.

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg
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