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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: texlive-latex-base: Files by Donald Arseneau: Lacking license statement, or nosell and such
- From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 22:23:24 +0200
- Message-id: <878wxvcx8j.fsf@riesling.zuerich.kuesterei.ch>
Package: texlive-latex-base
Version: 2007-14
Severity: serious
See also
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=356853#20
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=356853#44
and finally
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=356853#260
with contact data and a discouraging comment about getting an answer
from him about licensing stuff.
The list of files is:
(first part researched in teTeX days)
* chapterbib.sty: no license information
* tabls.sty: no license information
* import.sty: "this software is free of any restrictions"
* relsize.sty: "public domain", nothing else
* version.sty: no license information, not only by D.A.
* selectp.sty: no license information
Files only in TeXLive:
* braket.sty "This is free, unencumbered, unsupported software."
* conditionals.sty: No license information, not only by D.A.
* excludeonly.sty: No license information, not only by D.A.
* notoccite.sty: PD, but license statement could be clearer
* placeins.tex: No license information
* sansmath: PD, but could be clearer (what is PD?)
* tabto.tex: No license information
* titleref.sty: PD, spell out
* underscore.sty: No license information
* varwidth.sty: LPPL, but outdated "short version" included
Regards, Frank
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (99, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages texlive-latex-base depends on:
ii texlive-base 2007-14 TeX Live: Essential programs and f
ii texlive-common 2007-14 TeX Live: Base component
Versions of packages texlive-latex-base recommends:
ii texlive-latex-base-doc 2007-14 TeX Live: Documentation files for
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii debconf 1.5.11etch1 Debian configuration management sy
ii ucf 2.0020 Update Configuration File: preserv
Versions of packages texlive-latex-base is related to:
pn tetex-base <none> (no description available)
ii tetex-bin 2007-14 TeX Live: teTeX transitional packa
ii tetex-extra 2007-14 TeX Live: teTeX transitional packa
ii tex-common 1.10 common infrastructure for building
-- debconf information:
tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
tex-common/check_texmf_missing:
--
Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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Dear all,
instead of perpetuating this endless story, I have gone through
all files related to Donald Arsenau and collected the licensing
statements.
Although not perfect, all of them are fine.
In previous posts to this bug and the related bug #356853 about
DA files, especially the following files were mentioned:
+- Problematic files by Donald Arseneau:
+ * chapterbib.sty: no license information
there is a README that states:
They are all released under a very simple permissive license in
the MIT/BSD style: They may be freely used, transmitted, reproduced,
or modified provided that [the copyright and permission] notice is
left intact.
+ * tabls.sty: no license information
% These macros may be freely used, transmitted, reproduced, or modified
% provided that this notice is left intact.
+ * import.sty: "this software is free of any restrictions"
% This software is in the public domain; free of any restrictions.
+ * relsize.sty: "public domain", nothing else
% This software is contributed to the public domain.
+ * shapepar.sty: noncommercial
% These definitions may be freely transmitted, reproduced, or modified
% provided that any modifications are clearly identified and this notice
% is left intact.
+ * version.sty: no license information, not only by D.A.
% These macros may be freely used, transmitted, reproduced, or modified
% provided that the copyright notice and this permission is retained.
+ * selectp.sty: no license information
% This software is contributed freely to the public domain.
+- citesort.sty: no license statement
not existing anymore
+- index.doc: no license statement - probably unused
not existing anymore
For completeness all the findings, ordered by TeX Live packages:
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braket
This is free, unencumbered, unsupported software.
cancel
I contribute this software to the public domain. No rights reserved.
cases
% These macros may be freely transmitted, reproduced, or modified
% provided that this notice is left intact. Sub-equation numbering
% is based on subeqn.sty by Stephen Gildea; most of the rest is based
% on LaTeX's \eqnarray by Leslie Lamport and the LaTeX3 team.
cite:
cite.sty, overcite.sty, drftcite.sty, chapterbib.sty
They are all released under a very simple permissive license in
the MIT/BSD style: They may be freely used, transmitted, reproduced,
or modified provided that [the copyright and permission] notice is
left intact.
dotseqn
%% This file may be freely transmitted and reproduced, but it may not be
%% changed unless the name is changed also. This notice must remain intact.
excludeonly
% This software is contributed to the public domain.
framed
% These macros may be freely transmitted, reproduced, or modified
% for any purpose provided that this notice is left intact.
fwlw
% This software package may be freely used, transmitted, reproduced,
% or modified provided that this notice is left intact.
import
% This software is in the public domain; free of any restrictions.
magaz
% This software may be freely used, transmitted, reproduced, or modified
% provided that the copyright notice and this permission is retained.
nolbreaks
% Public domain software -- please submit any improvements to CTAN
notoccite
% This is unrestricted software contributed to the public domain.
optional
% This software is released under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public
% License (ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/base/lppl.txt).
oubraces
% Redistribution and use, with or without modification, are permitted provided
% that the above copyright notice and this condition for use are retained.
placeins-plain
% These macros may be freely used, transmitted, reproduced, or modified
% provided that this notice is left intact.
placeins
% placeins.sty is freely released to the public domain.
relsize
% This software is contributed to the public domain.
sansmath
% This package is released to the public domain by me, Donald Arseneau,
% the original author, who disclaims all rights. I do not support it,
% and request that it be adopted and supported by someone who knows
% more about math font issues in LaTeX.
selectp
% This software is contributed freely to the public domain.
shapepar
% These definitions may be freely transmitted, reproduced, or modified
% provided that any modifications are clearly identified and this notice
% is left intact.
subeqn
%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the
%% conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
tabls
% These macros may be freely used, transmitted, reproduced, or modified
% provided that this notice is left intact.
tabto-generic
% This software is contributed to the public domain.
tabto-ltx
% Permission to use, distribute and modify this software is granted
% under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either
% version 1.3 or (at your option) any later version. The license is
% found at http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt, and is part of all
% recent distributions of LaTeX.
threeparttable
% This file may be distributed, modified, and used in other works with just
% one restriction: modified versions must clearly indicate the modification
% (a name change, or a displayed message, or ?).
titleref
% This is free unsupported software, released to the public domain.
truncate
% This LaTeX program is released to the public domain.
ulem
% This software may be freely transmitted, reproduced, or modified for any
% purpose provided that this copyright notice is left intact.
% (Small excerpts may be taken and used without any restriction.)
underscore
% License: LPPL version 1.2 or later.
url
% This program can be used, distributed, and modified under the terms
% of the LaTeX Project Public License.
varwidth
% This software is released under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public
% License (ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/base/lppl.txt).
version
% These macros may be freely used, transmitted, reproduced, or modified
% provided that the copyright notice and this permission is retained.
wrapfig
% This software is released under the terms of the LaTeX Project
% public license.
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Although not optimal, I consider this enough to finally close
this bug report.
Norbert
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Norbert Preining preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org}
JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer
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