[tex-hyphen] [External] Greek Tex hyphenation patterns license

[Arthur Rosendahl]

	Hi Dimitrios,

  Thank you for contacting us.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 01:03:52PM +0000, Filippou, Dimitrios (RTIT) wrote:
> Is this request legitimate or not? Have other hyphenation patterns been licenced under the MIT License? Please let me know, and I will reply to the original sender accordingly.

  Yes, many other pattern files have been put under the MIT licence,
sometimes together with another licence.  The full list, not completely
up to date, is at http://www.hyphenation.org/tex#languages

  I’d like point out two facts, though:

  1. As the original author of the files (up to conversion), you are the
only person allowed and able to make a decision about the licence.  The
work that Mojca and I do as maintainers doesn’t make us authors (and
even if it did in some jurisdiction, we’re not interested in getting
credit for it).  You’re the copyright holder, you decide on the licence.

  2. As you’ve probably realised by now, your hyphenation pattern files,
together with the files for other languages, are very interesting to
several other projects, and all of them have slightly different licence
requirements.  You can thus be reasonably certain that you will receive
more such requests in the future.  We are really sorry about that.
There is obviously nothing we can do to prevent random people from
contacting you, not even recommend a licence that would suit more
projects better.  I personally think that the MIT licence is one of your
best bets, but I’ve been wrong several times about similar questions in
the past, and I thus really don’t want to make any prediction (except
the one I wrote earlier in this paragraph: more people are going to
contact you).

> Incidentally, I'd like my email address in the hyphenation files to change to dimitrios.ap.filippou at gmail.com<mailto:dimitrios.ap.filippou at gmail.com>.

  Thank you, I have updated it in the three files.

	Best,

		Arthur