Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

[Karl Goetz]

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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