Bug#360095: tetex-base: Contains files with improper license statements

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 30.03.06 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:

> Package: tetex-base
> Version: 3.0-16bpo1
> Severity: important
> 
> An other collection bug; this time for files which do have a free
> license, but have a formal error (like only including a copy of the GPL).
> 
> >From current copyright.header:
> 
> 3.2.2 Normal :-) problems
> 
> - listings: LPPL, plus: 
> 
> ,----
> | *Modification*advice* 
> | 
> | Permission is granted to modify the listings package as well as
> | lstdrvrs.dtx. You are not allowed to distribute a modified version of
> | the listings package or lstdrvrs.dtx unless you change the file names
> | and provide the original files. In any case it is better to contact
> | the address below; other users will welcome removed bugs, new
> | features, and additional programming languages.
> 
> This is more restrictive than LPPL 1.3 (6.a and 6.d.2). The title is advice... 
> 
Actually:

%% Please read the software license in listings-1.3.dtx or
%% listings-1.3.pdf.

and there:

Copyright The listings package is copyright 1996­2004 Carsten Heinz,
and copyright 2006 Brooks Moses. The drivers are copyright any
individual author listed in the driver files.

Distribution and modification The listings package and its drivers
may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX
Project Public License, either version 1.3 of this license or (at
your option) any later version. The latest version of this license is
in http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.3 or later is
part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2003/12/01 or later.

-> fixed.

> - ae: Just a formal problem, the GPL is included, but nowhere is it
>       explicitly stated that this license applies to the package.
> 
>       contacted upstream
> 
%% ae.sty
%% Copyright 1997-2001 Rolf Niepraschk, Gilbert Ritschard, Lars
%% Engebretsen
%
% This work may be distributed and/or modified under the
% conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
% The latest version of this license is in
%   http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
% and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX
% version 2005/12/01 or later.
%
% This work has the LPPL maintenance status `maintained'.

-> Fixed

> - antt: gust font license, unclear which files % contacted upstream
> 
Did you ever get a response. Should we file this as new bug?

> - GPL wrongly named in endfloat/readme.enf, not properly applied
> 
Fixed by Frank:

It was again modified on March 31, 2006, by Frank Küster
<frank@kuesterei.ch> to indicate the license clarification (see
below).

H.
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