[tex-live] EC license
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Sun Aug 30 01:57:57 CEST 2009
On 27 August 2009 Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> > This is fine. It's what everybody expect. And what you report is
> > obviously a Debian problem. Don't worry. TeX can't be part of Debian
> > anyway because Knuth clearly said that a modified TeX shall not be
> > called TeX. This definitely violates Debian policy.
>
> Reinhard, please don't talk about things you seem not to understand.
> TeX is part of Debian, and the LPPL is accepted, and any license with
> renaming clause is as well accepted in Debian (although they might
> not be happy).
Hi Norbert,
I fully agree with you if you say that there are things I don't understand.
What I meant is that it's ridiculous to assume that only Debian has
the right to define the meaning of the word "freedom".
Regards,
Reinhard
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