[tex-live] free software, DFSG

David Kastrup dak at gnu.org
Fri Jun 4 15:18:56 CEST 2004


Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> writes:

> This little discussion suggests to me that I was likely wearing
> the wrong hat when I made that decision about OFS; normally I think
> in "open source" world, but Karl is reminding me that TeX Live is
> actually in "free software" world, and that I am applying the wrong
> criteria.
> 
> So shall we just put in OFS after all?
> 
> PS if I was a dictator, I'd like to throw out all the LaTeX packages
> called "somethingX" or "newX", where a person writes a new package
> to enhance an old one, instead of working with the original author.

Does that mean eTeX has to go?

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum



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