Hilmar Preusse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 06.09.05 Peter S Galbraith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> 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...
Yes, Clause 4 of the DFSG has a special exception exactly for that. > The cweb.el sits in the teTeX sources in texk/web2c/cwebdir. Also > there in is a file README, I'm attaching. The most important part is: > > % Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of > % this document provided that the copyright notice and this > % permission notice are preserved on all copies. > > % Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of > % this document under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided > % that the entire resulting derived work is given a different name > % and distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to > % this one. > > % Please send comments, suggestions, etc. to > % levy <at> math.berkeley.edu . > > % This directory contains the following files: > > cweb.el > > So, either we distribute that file as cwebm.el (or any other name) and > have a mark in the header, that this is an replacement for cweb.el or > we try to contact Silvio Levy. > > Max, is that acceptable for you? Any other suggestions? We should put those lines from README into the file, anyway. I think Silvio is that one: http://www.msri.org/people/staff/levy/ and http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/about/people/home/levy.html Unfortunately, this geom institute does no longer exist. According to http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/about/people/home/levy-home.html he could be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED], but there are no recent search results on their page. Maybe it's worth a try, anyway. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
