F8 Features--should they stay or should they go?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Patrice Dumas wrote:

> 
> Those licensing issues would be blockers in general, but in that case
> some problematic softwares are in tetex already, it is an already existing
> issue, so I think it is not unacceptable to have problematic parts goes
> in, given that most of the time the issue is that a license is missing,
> and the author intention is certainly to make free software.

If we are distributing software without a clear written license, we 
should stop doing so. If you did do it without the knowledge that there 
is a problem, then that is different from knowingly ignoring a licensing 
issue and you can suffer more damages as a result. It is a blocker.

> I mailed all the issues I found out to the texlive maintainer and Spot
> is also doing a license review.

Rahul