[tex-live] Non-free parts within TeXLive 2007

[Frank Küster]

Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dr. Werner Fink <werner at suse.de> wrote:
>
>> just to be noted: out license team here at SuSE has detected
>> three parts within TeXLive 2007 which do not allow a commercial
>> usage.  This violates not only the GNU Gernal Public License
>> used for the TeXLive 2007 distribution but also cause problems
>> here. This is that the leagal department is very unhappy about.
>> 
>> The parts are:
>> 
>>    * dvi2tty -> texk/dvi2tty/dvi2tty.c
>> 
>>      |  * This program, and any documentation for it, is copyrighted by $VAR
>>      |  It may be copied for non-commercial use only, provided that
>>      |  * any and all copyright notices are preserved.
>
> that's correctly catalogued on ctan

However, there's also this text in README:

,----
| dvi2tty is licensed under the GPL version 2. It has had a history of many
| authors, I am just one of the latest maintainers.
| 
| Thats all, good luck.
| 
| 
| - Marcel 
`----

so this seems unclear.  Does anyone know whether Marcel J.E. Mol
<marcel at mesa.nl> is still reachable?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)