[tex-live] Non-commercial licenses

Dr. Werner Fink werner at suse.de
Tue Apr 14 17:16:23 CEST 2015


Hi,

our legal guys or better their tools have found several non-commercial 
license matches:

- texk/dvi2tty/dvi2tty-5.3.4/Changelog

  *
  * This program, and any documentation for it, is copyrighted by Svante
  * Lindahl. It may be copied for non-commercial use only, provided that
  * any and all copyright notices are preserved.
  *

  ... interesting the main license file is GPL2 (hijacked from or copylefted
  by Svante Lindahl?)

- texk/dvipsk/contrib/PSTricks

  Copying of part or all of any file in the PSTricks package
  is allowed under the following conditions only:
 

  (1) You may freely distribute unchanged copies of the files. Please
      include the documentation when you do so.
  (2) You may modify a renamed copy of any file, but only for personal
      use or use within an organization.
  (3) You may copy fragments from the files, for personal use or for use
      in a macro package for distribution, as long as credit is given
      where credit is due.

  You are NOT ALLOWED to take money for the distribution or use of
  these files or modified versions or fragments thereof, except for
  a nominal charge for copying etc.

- texk/dvipsk/special.lpro
- texk/xdvik/psheader.txt

  % Permission is granted for use and non-profit distribution of psfig/tex 
  % providing that this notice be clearly maintained, but the right to
  % distribute any portion of psfig/tex for profit or as part of any commercial
  % product is specifically reserved for the author.
  %

...

Werner

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