> Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 21:16:08 -0500
> From: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Are you asking Debian to regard the following license as DFSG-free?
>
> Copyright 1996-2002 Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
>
> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
> obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
> files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
> restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
> copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
> sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
> Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
> conditions:
>
> 1) The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall
> be included in all copies or substantial portions of the
> Software.
>
> 2) No file called "plain.tex" shall ever exist on a system where
> a TeX interpreter could possibly locate it.
>
I think that your condition (2) is different from the usual
understanding of Knuth's intentions. Again, I cannot vouch for DEK,
but *my* understanding is
2) No file called "plain.tex" can be distributed together with
the TeX interpreter in such a manner that TeX interpreter can
possibly locate it unless at least one of the following two
conditions is satisfied: (a) this is the exactly unchanged
copy of the Knuthian one, or (b) the interpreter is not
called TeX, and is not distributed as such
--
Good luck
-Boris
Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed.
-- W.C. Bennett
