[tex-live] License for kdgreek: nosell?
Alexander Cherepanov
cherepan at mccme.ru
Sat Oct 10 22:37:01 CEST 2009
Hi!
Files
rsync://tug.org/tldevsrc/Master/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/kdgreek/*.mf
contain the following text in the preamble:
% This file is part of the greektex package and abides to
% copyright laws of the GNU general public software licence
%
% You are allowed to use or modify this file as long as the
% original authors are clearly mentioned. It is ILLEGAL to sell
% any part of this work or work derived from it. You may not
% charge for this work except to cover for reasonable media
% expensess.
%
% K J Dryllerakis (C) 1991-1992
This statement is self contradicting: first it says that it's GPLed
and then it says that it's illegal to sell it. Should probably treated
as nosell.
(It's somewhat ironic that the license is called "GNU general public
software licence". Maybe the author predicted in the 1992 the
appearance of GNU documentation license?:-)
For a reference, from the catalogue entry kdgreek.xml:
<license type='gpl' checked='2008-10-17' file='*.mf'
version='3.1' username='robin'
note='despite every mf file having a gpl header, none of
the macros do...'/>
Alexander Cherepanov
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