[tex-live] include directories to search for additonalfileslike *.bib *.sty, etc.

Robin Fairbairns Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Sun May 16 11:57:34 CEST 2010


Thomas Jung <thomas.jung at public-files.de> wrote:

> > Licences. According to the catalogue:
> > - colortab: Free for use but distribution for profit only by arrangement
> > - floatflt: Other non-Debian licenses
> > (I didn't check further.)
> 
> According to that:
> Today I recognized that the package "ltablex" is in TeX-Live, but
> AFAIR in 2007 a read that this package is _not_ free [...]

i only did the licence check 2008-12-13, by which time it was presumably
already in tex live.  i wonder if it crept into the first ever tl, and
no-one has since got around to reviewing it in light of its (non-)licence.

no doubt karl will explain all, some time.  (afaik, the start of tl in
the mid-90s was a uk-only operation, but there were several other
nationalities involved by the time of the release.  that was the
advantage of having sebastian involved: back then, he knew _everyone_.)

robin


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