On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:20:33 +0200 Sam Geeraerts <sam...@elmundolibre.be> wrote:
> ben schreef: > > Frank Kuester, the maintainer of the Debian texlive-base package, > > clarified some things in a comment to the Debian bug report > > (#477060): > > > > Sorry, I don't have time to subscribe and really join in. Just two > > points: No problem. I've CC'd the bug report as I hope you can confirm some items. Apologies in advance if you'd rather we don't in future. > > - In all systems following the TDS, path does matter, and moving a > > file from $TEXMF/tex/latex/ams/ to $TEXMF/myengine/latex/ams/ will > > make it inaccessible for LaTeX in a usual setup. > > So if we'd have to rename directories there would be a problem. I > assume that's not AMS' intention. > > Renaming files wouldn't be a problem if AMS allows aliases and > keeping the package ID. AFAICT, they do in the current wording, but > the question is: is that also what they mean? Frank, is this your understanding too? > > All in all, since Debian has a special exception to allow software > > that requires renaming of modified files, I don't care much whether > > the licensor does it "properly" (like using the LPPL) or naively. > > I'm not sure I follow this. Does "a special exception" mean: "we > > kind > of think it's not free, but we allow it anyway"? Anyway, probably not > relevant to gNewSense. I assume this is a DFSG/policy exception (similar to the requirement of all changes being distributed as diffs). TBH, I'd prefer the 'changes as diffs' approach over 'rename on change', but thats just me being a pain. kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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