Re: How to deal with teTeX's and texlive's RC licensing bugs

2006-09-29 Thread Frank Küster
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > These seem to have all been analyzed already. I guess there's no need for > me to say which ones are RC or not, the proposed guidelines should be clear > enough? No, sorry for not being clear: I just wanted to make sure that everyone, especially the a

Re: How to deal with teTeX's and texlive's RC licensing bugs

2006-09-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:35:11AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > > Have I overlooked any other outstanding issues in these bugs, or missed > > important details about any of the files? > Not in the bugs, but since this all got very confusing, I stopped > forwarding to the bug all problems I found.

Re: How to deal with teTeX's and texlive's RC licensing bugs

2006-09-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 12:49:14PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Don, 28 Sep 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: > > A statement that "the work must be DFSG-compliant to be accepted" is not the > > same thing as saying "this tarball is distributed under license ". > > It's the latter that introduce

Re: How to deal with teTeX's and texlive's RC licensing bugs

2006-09-28 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Steve! On Don, 28 Sep 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: > A statement that "the work must be DFSG-compliant to be accepted" is not the > same thing as saying "this tarball is distributed under license ". > It's the latter that introduces ambiguity. To cite from TeX live's "COPYING CONDITIONS": ---

Re: How to deal with teTeX's and texlive's RC licensing bugs

2006-09-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 11:05:01AM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Mit, 27 Sep 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: > > - If a component of a package lists a non-free license, but is distributed > > as part of a larger work that includes a blanket license statement, > > resulting in ambiguity about

Re: How to deal with teTeX's and texlive's RC licensing bugs

2006-09-28 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Frank, hi all! On Don, 28 Sep 2006, Frank Küster wrote: > , > | euler: LPPL according changelog, but no indication in file. euler v4 fixed this with a manifest afair. > | citesort.sty: no license statement This is Donald Arsenau. It was removed on CTAN and TeX live and I asked him to rei

Re: How to deal with teTeX's and texlive's RC licensing bugs

2006-09-28 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi all! On Mit, 27 Sep 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: > - If a component of a package lists a non-free license, but is distributed > as part of a larger work that includes a blanket license statement, > resulting in ambiguity about which license the component is distributed > under, the bug is

Re: How to deal with teTeX's and texlive's RC licensing bugs

2006-09-28 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi all! On Mit, 27 Sep 2006, Frank Küster wrote: > and do not allow texlive as an alternative. Among the packages any > texlive package conflicts with, there might be some more. Some other > conflicts just indicate that the package is not up-to-date, and texlive > installs the newer version cont

Re: How to deal with teTeX's and texlive's RC licensing bugs

2006-09-28 Thread Frank Küster
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The guidelines I believe we should be using when deciding such a bug is RC > as follows: Thank you for your answer. > Have I overlooked any other outstanding issues in these bugs, or missed > important details about any of the files? Not in the bugs,

Re: How to deal with teTeX's and texlive's RC licensing bugs

2006-09-27 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Frank, On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 06:14:17PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > With the freeze coming nearer, I am unsure how to deal with this. I > currently see two options: > a) Either remove all problematic files from the orig.tar.gz right now, >with the option to add them again later > b) O

Re: How to deal with teTeX's and texlive's RC licensing bugs

2006-09-27 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, I should always go riding my bike *before* writing long e-mails. I always get the best ideas when moving my legs. Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a) Either remove all problematic files from the orig.tar.gz right now, >with the option to add them again later [...] > The good th

How to deal with teTeX's and texlive's RC licensing bugs

2006-09-27 Thread Frank Küster
Dear release team, dear fellow TeX maintainers, [Executive Summary: Being in the process of contacting upstream authors, should we rather fix the bugs early and maybe overreact, or wait?] as you probably know, the teTeX[1] packages have a couple of RC bugs[2] because documentation or runtime fi