[tex-live] Re: iahyphen.tex

Thomas Esser te at dbs.uni-hannover.de
Mon Jun 27 19:26:32 CEST 2005


On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 07:05:54PM +0200, frank wrote:
> I know, but I have experienced that it's generally worth asking people
> who likely know more about this, or might have tried to contact him,
> before mailing the author.  

:-)

Here is what I have about this:

--- mail 1 ---
    From te Mon May 31 20:51:33 2004
    Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 20:51:33 +0200
    From: Thomas Esser <te>
    To: "Johannes (bugs reply)" <latex-bugs at latex-project.org>
    Subject: Re: babel/3688: license of bghyphsi.tex
    Message-ID: <20040531185133.GB25353 at dbs.uni-hannover.de>
    References: <20040531094158.GA13304 at dbs.uni-hannover.de> <200405311844.i4VIigu26378 at perkamentus.homenet>
    In-Reply-To: <200405311844.i4VIigu26378 at perkamentus.homenet>

    Thanks Johannes for taking care of it. While I looked at other .tex
    files in babel, I found that iahyphen.tex has no license as well.

    And, one completely different matter: can't blplain.tex be dropped?
    I doubt that anybody needs it.

    Thomas

--- mail 2 ---
    From te Mon Jun  7 13:57:57 2004
    Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:57:57 +0200
    From: Thomas Esser <te>
    To: "Johannes (bugs reply)" <latex-bugs at latex-project.org>
    Subject: Re: babel/3688: license of bghyphsi.tex
    Message-ID: <20040607115757.GA25900 at dbs.uni-hannover.de>
    References: <200406010811.i518B0VA027243 at sun.dante.de> <200406012239.i51MdkK28705 at perkamentus.homenet>
    In-Reply-To: <200406012239.i51MdkK28705 at perkamentus.homenet>

    Hello Johannes,

    I note that lahyph.tex as contained in babel is an outdated version. CTAN
    has a newer one. iahyphen.tex has no proper license.

    And, somewhat unrelated, ntgclass is broken. Have you ever tried
    something like
      \documentclass{rapport3}
      \begin{document}
      \end{document}
    with the current release of latex and ntgclass?

    And, even more unrelatred, did you get my mail about changebar.dtx +
    \pdfoutput.

    Regards,

    Thomas

--- mail 3 ---
    From te Sun Jan  9 20:11:51 2005
    Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 20:11:51 +0100
    From: Thomas Esser <te>
    To: Vladimir Volovich <vvv at vsu.ru>
    Subject: Re: Bulgarian hyphenation patterns are installed in the wrong place
    Message-ID: <20050109191151.GA19457 at dbs.uni-hannover.de>
    References: <87k6qm32ut.fsf at vvv.vsu.ru>
    In-Reply-To: <87k6qm32ut.fsf at vvv.vsu.ru>

    > Thomas, please check teTeX-beta's tarballs with respect to these files
    > too (sorry - i can't check right now)

    In teTeX, I have all files except iahyphen.tex. I see that file e.g. on
    CTAN (language/hyphenation/iahyphen.tex), but I don't see a license for
    it. Could you please check this for me?

    And, I have added "bulgarian bghyphen.tex" to language.dat. Somehow,
    this was missing. Thanks.

    Thomas

--- mail 4 ---
    From te Sun Jan  9 21:03:54 2005
    Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 21:03:54 +0100
    From: Thomas Esser <te>
    To: Peter Kleiweg <kleiweg at let.rug.nl>
    Cc: Vladimir Volovich <vvv at vsu.ru>
    Subject: Re: license of iahyphen.tex
    Message-ID: <20050109200354.GB19457 at dbs.uni-hannover.de>
    References: <87k6qm32ut.fsf at vvv.vsu.ru> <20050109191151.GA19457 at dbs.uni-hannover.de> <87fz1a2yeq.fsf_-_ at vvv.vsu.ru>
    In-Reply-To: <87fz1a2yeq.fsf_-_ at vvv.vsu.ru>

    > CTAN:macros/latex/required/babel/iahyphen.tex

    Well, if your file has been contributed to babel, it would make sense
    to release it under the same license as babel itself; the LaTeX Project
    Public License (lppl, see CTAN:macros/latex/base/lppl.txt).

    Thomas

Johannes has promissed to check the license of iahyphen.tex (01
Jun 2004). Vladimir Volovich has written a mail to "Peter Kleiweg
<kleiweg at let.rug.nl>" asking him to add a proper license to his file
(09 Jan 2005). A day later, Vladimir has written an email to
  To: babel at braams.cistron.nl, ctan at dante.de
  Cc: texlive at tug.org
where he notes that iahyphen.tex exists in two locations on CTAN and he
suggests that the copy in babel be removed.

The file iahyphen.tex is not listed in babel's manifest.txt, so I'll
just remove this file from teTeX.

> If Thomas had answered "no idea", or simply not at all, I would have
> done that sooner or later.

Obviously, I don't say this :-)

Thomas



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