Re: tetex-base needs a new orig.tar.gz

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> Well, I thought:
>
> `Modification' of a file means any procedure that produces a
> derivative file under any applicable law -- that is, a file
> containing the original file or a significant portion of it, either
> verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another
> language.
>
> could be applied to sty- fd- etc. files as they contain significant
> portion of the original source files. docstrip just strips off the
> doc contained in the dtx-, fdd-files AFAIK.
>
> So this could the equivalent of the compiled clause of 1.3.

This is all correct. But *I* will not do anything with tetex-src just
because of some clause of LPPL-1.2. Either the files have a "or later"
clause, then it is unnecessary. Or they haven't - then we have more, and
more severe problems than this.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie