[tex-live] Announce: TeX Live on AWS Lambda

Uwe Ziegenhagen ziegenhagen at gmail.com
Tue Apr 3 08:35:00 CEST 2018


Hi Sam,

if it is just for you, there surely is no issue. But if you distribute the
files in any way, that might create some trouble. It's a pretty long story,
which I am not really eager to tell.

Uwe


2018-04-03 5:17 GMT+02:00 Sam O'Connor <sam at octech.com.au>:

> On 3 Apr 2018, at 10:13 am, Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info>
> wrote:
>
> If you don't need that, you could also do
>  tlmgr remove --force luatex
> to get rid of all of luatex, not only the binaries.
>
>
> This works if I also use `tlpdbopt_autobackup 0`.
> Without that option removing luatex does not decrease the installation
> size.
>
>
> On 3 Apr 2018, at 10:37 am, Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info>
> wrote:
>
> What is "absolute minimum"? That is impossible to define. Only the
> engines and one needs to build formats by hand? Which languages? Which
> fonts? Which packages? There is no way to fix this once and for all,
> thus we refrain from doing so.
>
>
> True. The minimum is not generally knowable.
> Maybe tlmgr could have a simple clean option that just removes the cached
> tlpdb.
>
> On 3 Apr 2018, at 10:38 am, Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info>
> wrote:
>
> ​Please be aware, that some package authors might object against having the
> documentation stripped away for the actual codse.
>
>
> Yes, that is what I mentioned. But since it is run in a purely automated
> environment without a user being able to ask for documentation, I guess
> it is fine in this case.
>
>
> I’m assuming that the packages in question are distributed under the terms
> of the LPPL.
> There is no intention of redistributing any of the packages, so my
> interpretation is that the only applicable clauses are 1 and 5:
>
> *“1. Activities other than distribution and/or modification of the Work
> are not covered by this license; they are outside its scope. In particular,
> the act of running the Work is not restricted and no requirements are
> made concerning any offers of support for the Work.”*
>
> *“5. If you are not the Current Maintainer of the Work, you may modify
> your copy of the Work, thus creating a Derived Work based on the Work,
> and compile this Derived Work, thus creating a Compiled Work based on
> the Derived Work."*
>
> So we could think of a stripped-down installation as a modification, or as
> a compiled work ("processed into a form where it is directly usable on a
> computer system”). In either case, modification, compiling, running
> and offers of support are all unrestricted in the absence of distribution.
>
> Uwe, if you believe that creating a stripped down installation is
> something that package authors might view as being outside the terms of the
> licence, I would like to understand why and try to do things in a way that
> complies with the license.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sam
>



-- 
Dr. Uwe Ziegenhagen
<http://www.uweziegenhagen.de>
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