[tex-live] TEXINPUTS problem

Vladimir Volovich vvv at vsu.ru
Sat Oct 16 20:47:18 CEST 2004


"KB" == Karl Berry writes:

 KB> I guess I forgot to update that README.  I made almost all of
 KB> Kpathsea LGPL at one point, and Olaf rewrote the brace-expansion
 KB> code to finish it off.

> grep 'GNU General Public License' *
> in the kpathsea directory shows quite a few files...

> So XeTeX does violate the GPL.

well, maybe not since most of these files are not in the kpathsea
library but in executables like kpsecheck.

But the license texts need to be looked at, and fixed, to match
whatever is correct.

And what about Web2C: does it introduce some GPL code into the
executable built with Web2C?

Best,
v.



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