Link: [1]index Link: [2]previous Link: [3]next [tex-live] licensing issues with sorhyph.tex Eduard Werner [4]edi.werner at gmx.de Tue Jun 28 12:37:39 CEST 2005 * Previous message: [5][tex-live] licensing issues with sorhyph.tex * Next message: [6][tex-live] ltxtable.sty is missing! * Messages sorted by: [7][ date ] [8][ thread ] [9][ subject ] [10][ author ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear all, Wutoru 28 junija 200508:08, frank pisase: > Dear Edward, > > Werner LEMBERG <[11]wl at gnu.org> wrote: > > Edward, > > > > > > to include your sorhyph.tex in the TeXLive distribution (and teTeX) we > > need a license which isn't as restrictive as the current one you have > > in the file: > > > > % Non-commercial usage and usage in TeX-related programs only > > % Packaging with commercial stuff only with written permission > > % of the author This was merely a quick notice for my first version that only I used anyway. Then, I clean forgot about it. > I think we owe an explanation *why* this license is too restrictive. > The problem is that free TeX systems like TeXLive (or Linux > distributions with teTeX) often *do* get sold. Even if there is just a > TeXLive CD as an add-on to a book about TeX, for a lawyer this means > selling TeXLive, and thus selling any file in it. Similarly, if > Lehmann's offer a TeXLive CD with their name on it for what is hardly > more than the cost of distribution, it is still commercial. See above. > Therefore, in order to be able to distribute the file with TeX systems, > the restriction on non-commercial uage must be dropped. OK. Drop it. > The second restriction, TeX-related, is problematic, too: First of all, > it is quite hard to define. Furthermore, I personally don't see why it > shouldn't be used in other Free Software, e.g. in competitors like lout > or OpenOffice. The hyphenation patterns for OO are based on this. > > What do you think about using the LPPL? > > I would also suggest that, either the current version (1.3a) or "version > 1.3a or later". No objection. Please put it under the LPPL 1.3a or newer. Cheers Edi -------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Previous message: [12][tex-live] licensing issues with sorhyph.tex * Next message: [13][tex-live] ltxtable.sty is missing! * Messages sorted by: [14][ date ] [15][ thread ] [16][ subject ] [17][ author ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [18]More information about the tex-live mailing list