[tex-live] TL licensing following FSF

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Wed Mar 15 09:26:48 CET 2006


Karl Berry wrote:
> In LICENSE.TL, I would like to add something like "When FSF and Debian
> conflict, we generally follow the FSF."
>   
sounds ok to me
> The problem is the GFDL; GNU manuals generally include invariant
> sections and texts, which Debian feels make them nonfree.  Their
> arguments have some merit, but I see no particular reason to perpetuate
> their decision into TL.  (Which would mean removing the Texinfo manual
> and probably a number of other manuals and documents.)
>   
actually, when a manual contains a verbose copy of some licence that 
part is unchangable by principle, isn't it?


Hans

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