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Hi Petr,
sorry for answering so late - I was on holiday, then at work again and
again away, and just didn't find time.
Petr Olsak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> As a short-term solution, is it possible to just take the three ini
>> files from the current version and install them along with the old files
>> already included in teTeX-3.0?
>
> Roughly speaking: Yes.
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Thanks for the clarifications.
>> The second question: Have you come to a conclusion regarding the future
>> license of the cs stuff? As I understood it, you weren't aware of the
>> problems of your mixed license (GPL + renaming clause) and needed some
>> thinking (probably without being yelled at on the mailing lists...).
>
> I plan to keep the meaning of my licesne in csplain.ini the same but to
> change the text in csplain.ini file in order to the word "GPL" will be not
> mentioned. Simply speaking: You can do anything with csplain code but you
> cannot expect any warranty from me and you cannot distribute the
> csplain.ini, csfonts.tex, il2code.tex, t1code.tex, hyphen.lan and
> plaina4.tex files in changed form.
You mean, unless I rename them, correct?
I strongly suggest to not invent a new license text. I think the LPPL
is just what you need, although it allows modification without renaming
in the case that a prominent notice is printed that it is a different
system. If you find that not strict enough, I suggest to use a wording
like Knuth did (or even better, add a "After renaming, you may freely
use, distribute and/or modify the files"). Note, however, that
"renaming" is not as clear as one might think on a web2c-based TeX
system: Just moving a file around in a TEXMF tree may have the desired
effect that it is not found when using cstex, while a renamed file will
still be found with an appropriate line in TEXMF/aliases.
Do you have a timeline for a new release? Later this year, there will
be a new TeXlive version (and a new Debian release which contains these
files in teTeX and TeXlive packages). It would be a pity if the csplain
things would have to be excluded from Debian (we are currently not
allowed to distribute them).
Regards, Frank
By the way, may I forward your and my mail to the Debian Bugtracking
system, in order to archive this discussion?
Anyway, many thanks for providing a localized TeX system!
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
