From: Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [tex-live] texlive license To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:46:18 +0200
Barbara Beeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Karl Berry wrote: > > [...] > > I asked Barbara Beeton at the AMS about taking care of the pcatcode > madness, in hopes we can get a free version shortly. I'm sure they did > not intend the current situation. > > the current situation was absolutely not > intended. the person who now maintains > amsrefs will change the license information > for pcatcode to lppl, and the new version > will be posted as soon as i've been told > that the change has been made. > > the rest of amsrefs will be modified similarly, > as will all ams-latex files, effective with > the next regular update, expected (probably) > sometime in 2008. Thanks for the news. Will the 2008 update also contain clarifications of the amslatex license itself[1], or will that not be sorted out in time? Thanks for your work, Frank [1] as we discussed earlier, the main license text has ambiguous wording regarding modifications, and there are a couple of files under unclear licenses. -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive) -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
