[tex-live] dvi2tty nonfree

[Robin Fairbairns]

Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:

> On Do, 26 Jun 2008, Robin Fairbairns wrote:
> > by looking at the copy on ctan (v4. something).
> 
> Ahhh. That could be true.
> 
> > what's debian's upstream?  or is it a debian-only package?
> 
> From Debian's copyright file
> (http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/d/dvi2tty/dvi2tty_5.3.1-4/dvi2tty.copyright)
> 
> It was downloaded from
> http://www.mesa.nl/pub/dvi2tty/dvi2tty-5.3.1.tar.gz
> 
> Upstream Author(s): many, including Marcel J.E. Mol <marcel at mesa.nl>
> 
> Copyright:
>  GNU General Public License.

sigh.

we tend not to put things on ctan unless the author's asked us to.

can tex live use the stuff on a random web site as upstream?

r