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diff --git a/obsolete/help/Catalogue/licenses.html b/obsolete/help/Catalogue/licenses.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..bf59917b34 --- /dev/null +++ b/obsolete/help/Catalogue/licenses.html @@ -0,0 +1,252 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> +<html> + +<head> +<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> +<title>The TeX Catalogue License Definitions</title> +</head> + +<body> +<h1>The TeX Catalogue License Definitions</h1> + +<h2>Introduction</h2> +<p>Here we list the licenses used by TeX-related software as +recorded in <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue">The +TeX Catalogue</a> (created by +<a href="http://www.togaware.com/Graham.Williams">Graham Williams</a> +and maintained by the <a href='http://www.ctan.org'>CTAN team</a>). +General information about categories of licenses is available from +<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html">the GNU project</a>. +<p> +The license conditions are <B>not</B> designed to restrict what may +be submitted to CTAN. Rather, the license information should make +life easier for redistributors of TeX and related software: in +general, software under one of the non-free license terms listed below +should not be included in a distribution. Most material on the +archive may be <em>used</em> without further ado; the only exceptions +are <a href="licenses.nocommercial.html">nocommercial</a> software, +(whose use in a commercial environment is forbidden), and some (but not +all) <a href="licenses.shareware.html">shareware</a>. +<p> +The CTAN team tries to ensure that the license information in the +Catalogue is accurate, and maintains it with input from authors and +others, but the sheer size of the Catalogue makes it difficult to +maintain a watching brief on all licenses. Thus, while the team believes +that the data presented are mostly correct, we advise careful checking +if license information is to be used in ‘legally delicate’ +situations. + +<h2>The licenses</h2> +<p> +<b>Free software</b> satisfies the criteria contained in the <a +href="http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines">Debian Free +Software Guidelines</a> which provides the basis of the <a +href="http://opensource.org/osd.html">Open Source Free Software +Guidelines</A>. This software may be freely used, modified (hence +source must be available), and distributed (e.g. on distributions like +TeXLive and MikTeX). It is generally copyrighted to legally +protect it. Users are usually given an explicit license to copy, +distribute, and/or modify the software. Authors of free software may +invite users to make monetary donations if they wish, but can not +oblige them to do so, or else the software becomes nonfree. Free +software may rely on nonfree software for extra functionality, but +provides useful functionality without that nonfree software. Further +information on free software is available from +<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">GNU</a>. + +<p>While one category would be sufficient (just ‘free’) we +identify licenses, important for (La)TeX users, that satisfy common +notions of free software: +<p> +<table width="80%"> + <tr> + <td style="width: 10%"> + <td style="width: 20%"> + <a href="licenses.apache2.html">apache2</a> + <td style="width: 70%"> + Apache License v2.0 + </tr> + <tr> + <td style="width: 10%"> + <td style="width: 20%"> + <a href="licenses.artistic2.html">artistic2</a> + <td style="width: 70%"> + Perl Artistic License (version 2) + </tr> + <tr> + <td style="width: 10%"> + <td style="width: 20%"> + <a href="licenses.bsd.html">bsd</a> + <td style="width: 70%"> + BSD Style License + </tr> + <tr> + <td style="width: 10%"> + <td style="width: 20%"> + <a href="licenses.fdl.html">fdl</a> + <td style="width: 70%"> + GNU Free Documentation License + </tr> + <tr> + <td style="width: 10%"> + <td style="width: 20%"> + <a href="licenses.gfl.html">gfl</a> + <td style="width: 70%"> + GUST Font License + </tr> + <tr> + <td style="width: 10%"> + <td style="width: 20%"> + <a href="licenses.gfsl.html">gfsl</a> + <td style="width: 70%"> + GUST Font Source License + </tr> + <tr> + <td style="width: 10%"> + <td style="width: 20%"> + <a href="licenses.gpl.html">gpl</a> + <td style="width: 70%"> + GNU General Public License + </tr> + <tr> + <td style="width: 10%"> + <td style="width: 20%"> + <a href="licenses.lgpl.html">lgpl</a> + <td style="width: 70%"> + GNU Library General Public License + </tr> + <tr> + <td style="width: 10%"> + <td style="width: 20%"> + <a href="licenses.lppl.html">lppl</a> + <td style="width: 70%"> + LaTeX Project Public License + </tr> + <tr> + <td style="width: 10%"> + <td style="width: 20%"> + <a href="licenses.ofl.html">ofl</a> + <td style="width: 70%"> + Open Font License + </tr> + <tr> + <td style="width: 10%"> + <td style="width: 20%"> + <a href="licenses.pd.html">pd</a> + <td style="width: 70%"> + Public Domain + </tr> + <tr> + <td style="width: 10%"> + <td style="width: 20%"> + <a href="licenses.other-free.html">other-free</a> + <td style="width: 70%"> + Category for packages, whose license terms seem (to the CTAN team) + to conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines + </tr> +</table> + +<p><b>Nonfree software</b> is released subject to restrictions that in +some way prohibit its free distribution. Because this +software does <b>not</b> satisfy the <a +href="http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines">Debian Free +Software Guidelines</a>, it will not be available for distribution by +free TeX distributions such as TeX-live, MiKTeX and friends. +<p> +<table width="80%"> + <tr> + <td style="width: 10%"> + <td style="width: 20%"> + <a href="licenses.noinfo.html">noinfo</a> + <td style="width: 70%"> + No information about licensing terms can be found + </tr> + <tr> + <td style="width: 10%"> + <td style="width: 20%"> + <a href="licenses.nocommercial.html">nocommercial</a> + <td style="width: 70%"> + Free private use but commercial use not permitted + </tr> + <tr> + <td style="width: 10%"> + <td style="width: 20%"> + <a href="licenses.nosell.html">nosell</a> + <td style="width: 70%"> + Free use but distribution for profit by arrangement only + </tr> + <tr> + <td style="width: 10%"> + <td style="width: 20%"> + <a href="licenses.nosource.html">nosource</a> + <td style="width: 70%"> + Freely distributable but source code not distributed + </tr> + <tr> + <td style="width: 10%"> + <td style="width: 20%"> + <a href="licenses.shareware.html">shareware</a> + <td style="width: 70%"> + Payment is requested if software is used + </tr> + <tr> + <td style="width: 10%"> + <td style="width: 20%"> + <a href="licenses.artistic.html">artistic</a> + <td style="width: 70%"> + Perl Artistic License (original version, now understood not to + offer unconditional freedom) + </tr> + <tr> + <td style="width: 10%"> + <td style="width: 20%"> + <a href="licenses.other-nonfree.html">other-nonfree</a> + <td style="width: 70%"> + Category for packages whose license terms are other than any of + the above, but seem (to the CTAN team) not to conform to Debian + Free Software guidelines. + </tr> +</table> + +<p><b>Sets of items</b>: finally, the catalogue recognises two other +‘license’ tags, whose purpose is to identify the status of +‘composite’ objects on the the archive. + +<p> +<table width="80%"> + <tr> + <td style="width: 10%"> + <td style="width: 20%"> + <a href="licenses.collection.html">collection</a> + <td style="width: 70%"> + A collection of similar packages + </tr> + <tr> + <td style="width: 10%"> + <td style="width: 20%"> + <a href="licenses.digest.html">digest</a> + <td style="width: 70%"> + A digest of contributions to a mailing list or publication + </tr> +</table> + +<p> +<b>Disclaimer:</b> The CTAN team tries hard to maintain the catalogue +information, but the task is a large one — extremely challenging +for a small volunteer team; errors (probably) and omissions +(certainly) still exist. Any contribution, or correction, to the +catalogue is extremely welcome — please mail the +<a href="mailto:ctan<at>dante<dot>de">CTAN team</a> if you spot a problem, +or can describe a package the catalogue doesn't currently mention. + +<hr> +<address></address> +<!-- hhmts start --><p>Last modified: 2009-01-23 Robin Fairbairns, +University of Cambridge</p> <!-- hhmts end --> +</body> </html> +<!-- LocalWords: lppl sty CTAN gpl pd nocommercial nosell shareware TeXLive + --> +<!-- LocalWords: CD teTeX MikTeX Debian nonfree lgpl + --> +<!-- LocalWords: PublicDomainSoftware + --> |