Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > >> On Tuesday 11 January 2005 16.26, you wrote: >>> [not subscribed to tetex-maint, so please cc: me if replying there.] >> >>> I created a quick package of Achim Brucker's svninfo latex Package. >>> <http://www.brucker.ch/projects/svninfo/index.en.html> >> >> ... and of course, I have it online. Arrgh! >> >> <http://fortytwo.ch/debian/latex-svninfo> > > Some comments:
I forgot one: /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/svninfo/svninfo.cfg Either this file is meant for local configuration, as the name implies. Then it should be in /etc/texmf/latex (with a symlink at its old place), and this sentence from the file is nonsense and should be deleted: ,---- | %% Any modified versions of this file must be renamed | %% with new filenames distinct from svninfo.cfg. `---- Or it is not meant for configuration, then it's one-line content should just be integrated into svninfo.sty. Furthermore, this sentense renders the package non-free. Of course it makes more sense to change the sources, not the generated *sty or *cfg files, but it must still be allowed (and, by the way, after the change of the sources the same sentence would protect the changed version, which doesn't make any sense to me). It also contradicts the license of the source file from which it was generated, which states that the package can be distributed under the LPPL, either version 1 or any later version; and at least the current version 1.3a does allow modification without renaming if the changed file identifies itself as a modified version. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
