TeX Live 2008/9 packaging and you

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Thu Jun 4 12:56:22 UTC 2009


On 06/04/2009 03:02 AM, Jindrich Novy wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:51:08PM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
>> On 06/03/2009 01:46 PM, Jindrich Novy wrote:
>>> All license codes are described here:
>>> http://ftp.cvut.cz/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.html
>>>
>>> We want to get rid of everything listed there as "Nonfree" I presume.
>> You are correct. In addition, we need to audit anything labeled as:
>>
>> "other", "collection", "digest", "other-free"
> 
> Ok, I'll remove these.
> 
>> I also still haven't seen any information about "knuth", it isn't listed
>> on that website.
> 
> It's here:
> http://ftp.cvut.cz/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.knuth.html
> 
> Upstream forgot to add a link to it from the main page.

"All the same, please check the specific details of the software's
license before making modifications."

I need to see a copy of the actual license text, this seems like a
paraphrased summary.

~spot


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