[tex-live] letterspacing.tex

[Thomas Esser]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 01:17:27PM -0400, Karl Berry wrote:
> file got renamed first.  (Unless you specifically asked him about that?)

Somehow, Frank Küster has mentioned this...

    To: Frank Küster <frank at debian.org>
    Cc: 274868-forwarded at bugs.debian.org, Robert Smith <r_q_smith at yahoo.com>,
            Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>
    Subject: Re: Bug#274868: Non-free file license in tetex-base

    Frank Küster wrote:
    > a Debian user has found that there is a file in teTeX with a non-free
    > license:

    Thanks. I'll take that file out of my current beta. I'll put it back if
    that file gets a free software license.

    > ,----
    > | This file, "letterspacing.tex", created by Philip Taylor of RHBNC
    > | (P.Taylor at Mail.Rhbnc.Ac.Uk) for Kaveh Bazargan of Focal Image
    > | (Kaveh at Focal.Demon.Co.Uk) may be freely distributed provided that
    > | no changes whatsoever are made to its contents
    > `----
    >
    > > There is no other text to suggest that changing the
    > > filename or distributing with patch files would be
    > > acceptable to the author.
    >
    > This is still the same in the current beta, and I think it is also not
    > compliant to the policy you follow for teTeX.

    Right.

    > Do you know anything about the upstream authors? I couldn't find really
    > recent hits for them on Google, but the most recent ones (2003 and 2001,
    > respectively) indicated the old addresses.

    I have added Philip Taylor with a hopefully working email adress to Cc:.

    > P.S. I know that you intend teTeX to be a collection of free software -
    > but I couldn't find anything about that on the homepage at
    > http://www.tug.org/tetex/. Why not include "provide a TeX system that
    > consists only of Free Software" in the list of your aims, with a link to
    > an explanation about your understanding of Free Software?

    Done. Thanks for the idea.

    Thomas

Thomas