[texhax] upgrade of PSTricks documentation
Herbert Voss
LaTeX at zedat.fu-berlin.de
Wed May 3 20:17:59 CEST 2006
Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>>>>>>"Tom" == Tom Schneider <toms at ncifcrf.gov> writes:
>
>
> > I am looking for the *original* tex files so that I can CORRECT
> > this manual.
>
> It would be nice to have an up-to-date user guide which can be put on
> CTAN so that it will go into TeX distributions as well.
>
> However, before you invest any time, please read the license first.
>
> %% You are NOT ALLOWED to take money for the distribution or use of
> %% these files or modified versions or fragments thereof, except for
> %% a nominal charge for copying etc.
>
> With this license, I think, pst-user.tex is not a good starting point.
>
> This license is inappropriate for any TeX distribution. I suppose
> that Timothy van Zandt did not change the license of the files in the
> 'obsolete' directory to LPPL because he regarded them as obsolete and
> did not take into account that someone wants to update them.
>
> Herbert, are you, as the current maintainer of PST, allowed to change
> the copyright of the old doc files?
It makes no sense to investigate here. The files cannot be compiled
with current (La)TeX. However, if someone get it run, we can
change the license.
> If not, TvZ is still alive: http://faculty.insead.edu/vanzandt
alive is not enough ;-)
Herbert
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