[tex-live] Removal of csplain from Debian

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Thu Sep 6 22:32:55 CEST 2007


On Don, 06 Sep 2007, David Kastrup wrote:
>     This macro package (csplain.ini, il2code.tex, csfonts.tex, hyphen.lan,
>     plaina4.tex) is free software; you can use it without any restriction.
>     You can redistribute it under the following condition: 
> 
>     You can do any changes in this software for your own usage. However,
>     you cannot distribute the changed software under the same name
>     "csplain".  Only the current administrator of CSTeX can do official
>     changes to csplain.
> 
> This sort of restriction was what required the last LPPL changes, so
> it would be my guess that whatever changes were done recently would
> not actually be sufficient.  However, it is not clear what "under the
> same name" actually means here: is it the file name, or the system

II would say that I am not allowed to distribute those 5 files under the
name
	csplain
Anything else is allowed.

Best wishes

Norbert

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