Bug 1453
Summary: | Breach of license of many TeX/LaTeX packages by omission of required source code | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | david.kastrup |
Component: | tetex | Assignee: | Cristian Gafton <gafton> |
Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | high | ||
Version: | 5.2 | ||
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 1999-03-31 20:34:07 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
david.kastrup
1999-03-08 16:58:34 UTC
These sources are included. You must look in /usr/share/tetex/ After doing diffs with the said package they are the same. As far as I know latex is licensed under GPL. We packaged the original source files we used to produce the binary packages in the src.rpm found on the SRPMS. GPL requires us to ship all the sources used in building a package. For the purpose of this packages, precompiled binary fonts and styles packages separately are used as *sources* because they are available from the CTAN sites. I doubt that this is a breach of the license ------- Email Received From David Kastrup <dak.de> 03/11/99 04:53 ------- As you have discarded bug report #1453 in spite of me explaining in several Emails (see the entries in Bug #1453 email) that went largely ignored how you were in conflict with the various copyrights, I have notified Thomas Esser, the author of teTeX, of the situation. You can contact him at te.de if you still do not understand the implications of the GPL and the LaTeX licenses. As one reaction, he will be putting up a README shortly specifically for distributors that can't be bothered to either read or understand the licenses of the various files comprising teTeX at the teTeX ftp site. If you still choose to be in breach of the copyright on the entire LaTeX source distribution as detailed in the email I have already written on this matter, I will also notify the LaTeX project as main copyright holder on those pieces of software the license of which you choose to violate of your unwillingness to comply with the LaTeX distribution terms, and of your frivolous claim that the LaTeX source files are "font files", you do not consider complying with "font file licenses", anyhow, and that whoever wants to get the sources can get them elsewhere. I find it pretty disappointing to hear such a stance from RedHat, which I had previously considered to be a party more interested in adhering to the licenses of free software. The current source rpm for tetx includes the latex texmfsrc tar archive if anybody wants to use it. |