Hilmar Preusse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The sources of tetex-bin (or better the sources of web) deliver a
> file cweb.el. As that file is very outdated we've got in #170773 the
> request to update it (attached). We've forwarded the request to our
> upstream (Thomas Esser/Olaf Weber) and got the reply, that the file
> was delivered in the tar ball for copyright reasons and it was never
> intended to have it installed. Hence they refused to accept an
> update.
> My suggestion is now to deliver the updated version in your package.
> Our tetex-bin package delivers until 3.0-7 that file in
> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/cweb.el so please make sure the
> Conflicts, Replaces lines etc. are set correct. The tetex-bin in that
> version is unfortunately not yet in unstable so maybe it is a better
> idea to delay the fix a little bit.
> I keep #170773 at tetex-bin as in there is still the request to
> include c++lib.w into the package, which was accepted by upstream.
I see.
An infortunate side-effect of accepting this is that the instable
version of emacs-goodies-el has always been installable on stable. This
conflict will make that very difficult.
There's really no need for the conflict. cweb.el would be packaged as
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/cweb.el and would have
priority over the other version in the load-path.
Now for my problem... I've extracted cwebm.el from cweb_files.tar.gz and
I see no copyright notice. It doesn't directly `load' any Emacs code so
perhaps it doesn't need to be GPL'ed, but it needs a copyright notice of
some sort. It is assumed to have the same license as TeX? Does the
license permit the modification being released under the same name? I
recall there's something funky about that in the TeX license...
Thanks,
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