[tex-live] texi2dvi missing

[George N. White III]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:

> On Mi, 25 Nov 2009, George N. White III wrote:
>> $ tlmgr show --list collection-texinfo
> ..
>> longdesc:   TeX macros for the GNU Texinfo documentation system.  The
>> programs and documentation are no longer distributed with TeX Live;
>> get the original Texinfo package for your system.
>
> 100% right.
>
>> If you are on *x you can get texinfo utilities from the vendor/distro.
>
> 100% right.
>
>>    The reasons
>> were discussed on this list -- there were conflicts with other
>> "install-info" programs
>> as well as license issues:
>>
>> <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=356916>
>
> 0% right.
>
> There is NO license problem with respect to including texinfo into
> TeX Live at all. We (TeX Live hat on) accept GFDL. OTOH, for Debian
> (Debian hat on) GFDL is not free enough.

I stand corrected, but this leaves the OP's question "why?" unanswered.


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