[tex-live] British hyphenation not freely distributable?

[Gerben Wierda]

On Saturday, Jul 26, 2003, at 03:11 Europe/Amsterdam, Thomas Esser 
wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 07:35:32PM -0400, Karl Berry wrote:
>>     file. Still, this does not make it free software. The file 
>> disallows any
>>     modifications and this violates our rules.
>>
>> The same is true for hyphen.tex.  hyphen.tex starts with:
>> % The Plain TeX hyphenation tables [NOT TO BE CHANGED IN ANY WAY!]
>
> In the same way that the "modification is allowed if you rename this 
> file"
> was added to plain.tex, it was added to hyphen.tex, as well:
>
>   % The Plain TeX hyphenation tables [NOT TO BE CHANGED IN ANY WAY!]
>   % Unlimited copying and redistribution of this file are permitted as 
> long
>   % as this file is not modified. Modifications are permitted, but 
> only if
>   % the resulting file is not named hyphen.tex.

This claims copyright on the file name which in my view goes beyond 
what copyright shoul dbe able to do. Sorry DEK.

G
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G
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