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Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack
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Karl Goetz |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack |
Date: |
Wed, 5 Aug 2009 16:48:03 +0930 |
On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:37:21 +0200
Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden> wrote:
> Benedikt Ahrens schreef:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I finally received an answer to my request to the AMS. Their
> > licensing will be unified.
> > The new wording has already been applied to the following
> > distributions:
> >
> > 1) AMSFonts v3 -- released last month. (The Type 1 font files are
> > released under the SIL OFL, btw.)
> >
> > 2) The core AMS document classes (amsart.cls, amsbook.cls, and
> > amsproc.cls) -- there was a minor maintenance release last month.
> > Some of the related files may still have the old license.
> >
> > 3) AMSrefs
> >
> > The bad news is that we still have not had occasion to update the
> > core amsmath package and related files. We hope to release an
> > upgrade of amsmath at the end of this year or early next year, but
> > I'm not in a position to make any hard promises.
> >
> > What we could do, if it would help, is add a 00LICENSE file to the
> > current distribution that contains the new license, an explanation
> > of the situation, and a statement that this supersedes the one in
> > the individual files. I suspect that strictly speaking this is
> > legally dicey, but it would certainly make our intentions clear.
>
> AMS probably own all the code, so I think this is legally sound and
> good enough for our purposes. It would be good to check with the FSF
> licensing lab, though.
I have changed the status of the bug[1]. Its now NEEDSINFO, BLOCKER,
target release deltah (2.3).
I'll adjust the status when we get word back from the FSF as to their
opinion.
Sam/Benedikt, have either of you emailed the FSF yet?
kk
[1] http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00248
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- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack, Benedikt Ahrens, 2009/08/04
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack, Sam Geeraerts, 2009/08/04
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack, Karl Goetz, 2009/08/04
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack,
Karl Goetz <=
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack, Sam Geeraerts, 2009/08/05
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack, Karl Goetz, 2009/08/06
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack, Sam Geeraerts, 2009/08/12
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack, Karl Goetz, 2009/08/13
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack, Russell Currey, 2009/08/13
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack, Benedikt Ahrens, 2009/08/13
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack, Sam Geeraerts, 2009/08/13
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack, Benedikt Ahrens, 2009/08/18
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack, Karl Goetz, 2009/08/19
- Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack, Benedikt Ahrens, 2009/08/20