On 13.11.05 Sean Finney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 07:13:08PM +0100, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
Hi, > > For third party software we have a policy. If anybody is willing > > to maintain the package as a separate one, please open an RfP or > > ITP bug against wnpp. > > it seems kind of silly to have a single .sty (and accompanying .pdf > documentation, maybe) file as an entirely seperate package. > ACK. > > 1. Make sure the license of the package is OK for Debian. I did > > not download the package and checked it. Please do so! > > % The author grants permission for anyone to use this macro package > % and to distribute it unchanged without further restriction. If > % you choose to modify this package, you must indicate that you > % have modified it prior to your distributing it. I don't want to > % get bug reports about changes that *you* have made! > > use/redistribution/modification are all covered. > You seem to be a DD yourself. I trust you more than me, when evaluating if a package is compatible to the DFSG. IMHO it would have been much more easy to say: "This package is LPPL > xx..." than to dig through the special license statement of a package. But this is a matter of taste. > > 2. If you want to have it in teTeX upload it to CTAN. Normally we > > forward these inclusing wishes to upstream (TE) and he > > normally refuses to include package not in the contrib tree of > > CTAN. > > okay. maybe somebody with more motivation will do so :) > Well, the package seems to be OK from the view of the license. IIRC anybody can upload a package if he likes to, I'll try to do so. H. -- sigmentation fault
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