A short two cents from a user... Boris Veytsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Timothy Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (1) The intersection of those interested in LaTeX and those > > seriously interested in Debian is almost empty, I imagine. I'm a LaTeX user and Debian developer. > > (2) You (or someone else on the Debian "side") asked for the "LaTeX > > community" to comment on the discussion. I'm an ordinary LaTeX > > user, but I'm pretty sure that I speak for 95% (if not 100%) of > > LaTeX users when I say that satisfying the Debian licence comes very > > low indeed in my order of priorities. > I completely disagree with these points. > > 1. I know many LaTeX users. Debian is a distribution of choice for > many of them. > > 2. The state of TeX/LaTeX in Debian is high on the priority list for > many LaTeX users I know, and very high for many system admins that > support LaTeX on their machines. Right. As a LaTeX user, I'd be sad to see it go from Debian. > Having said this, I need to note that the integrity of my (La)TeX > distribution on the production systems is higher in my priority list > than ease of maintaining. If Debian starts to change the standard, I > will probably migrate to TeXLive again -- with all the problems this > migration would cause. I think you can have both. I don't think a DFSG-compliant license will mean a fork of LaTeX by the Debian maintainer of that package. I have always appreciated the fact that you could run latex on 10 year-old sources and get the same output, but I have also come to appreciate the rights granted by DFSG-compliant software. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
