Dear Till,
thank you for your answer.
Till Tantau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the license changed from time to time and at some point changing the
> headers in hundreds of files became too cumbersome. Aditionally, I am
> not perfectly sure which license is actually the best to choose.
>
> Here is what I will do: I am currently preparing a new release of pgf
> and presumably also of beamer and intend to have this release ready
> before the new semester, that is, by mid October. In this release I
> will make sure that the license stuff is correct, that is, the
> licening is consistent and correct.
find . -type f | xargs grep -v $imagepattern > MANIFEST
plus adding some remark ("files covered are listed in MANIFEST") would
probably do.
> Concerning the pictures: Indeed, the Apple logo has been downloaded
> from the Apple website as, thus, should not be used. I'll try to
> replace it by something else in the new release. Concerning the TU
> logo: Hmm, ... This part of an actual example that is an official
> publication of the TU Berlin (namely by myself), so I should be
> perfectly entitled to use and distribute it. However, that does not
> mean that I can put the logo under GPL. Hmm. I presume, it would be
> best to just say that the TU logo is copyrighted by the TU Berlin,
> but have it be part of the distribution.
>
> Hoping this helps,
Yes, that would help, thank you very much. Naturally, redistributors
like Debian who promise that all files included are Free Software would
have to remove the TU logo file, but that's only a technical problem
(replacing this with a eps that says "this should be the the logo of the
TU Berlin" etc...). Or we could distribute the file in our non-free
section. Since it probably doesn't make sense to create a
pgf-nonfree-Package just for that file, I'll consider including it in
the generic tetex-nonfree package.
Gruß, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
