Nonfree packages cc-pl, mex, pl and hyphen-polish in texlive distribution

Wojtek Kosior kwojtus at protonmail.com
Thu Mar 19 12:49:37 CET 2020


Any changes/responses on the matter?

>From what I see, the files contents on CTAN  (https://ctan.org/texarchive/language/polish) haven't changed. Can we be 100% sure about the precedence of the public domain statement?

Some confirmation could also help others who also got confused (Hyperbola, MikTex).

Regards,
Wojtek Kosior

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Thursday, December 19, 2019 11:54 PM, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:

>     are misleadingly marked on CTAN
>
>
> I would not say it's misleading. I'd say it's as intended, but
> that the freeness bug was previously incompletely fixed.
>
> a custom, nonfree license (mex105/mexinfo/mexinfo.eng in the mex package).
>
> Thanks for the report. To the best of my recollection, the intent is for
> the "public domain" statement in the 00readme to take precedence over
> the crazy license files; that's why the date in 00readme is later
> (2003), as that is when Staszek and I (I think) tried to do something
> about the non-free-ness.
>
> Anyway, I certainly agree the situation is not made clear. I will write
> the package maintainers. --best, karl.





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