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+MAINTAINERSHIP
+
+thailatex was originally created by Surapan Meknavin in 1999, as a project
+under the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC).
+Granted by its license terms, it has been later imported to a public CVS and
+maintained by Thai Linux Working Group (TLWG) community since version 0.2
+in 2000.
+
+RELICENSING
+
+Before version 0.4.0, thailatex was released under non-commercial license:
+
+---8<---
+ This package, "Thai Extension for LaTeX", is copyright (C) 1999 National
+ Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Thailand. All rights
+ reserved.
+
+ Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+ modification are permitted provided that the following conditions
+ are met:
+
+ 1. Redistributions of the program must retain the above copyright notice,
+ this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+
+ 2. No charge more than random data distribution cost is associated with
+ the redistributions.
+
+ 3. The origin of this software must not be misinterpreted; you must not
+ claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software
+ in a product, an acknowledgement in the product documentation would be
+ appreciated but is not required.
+
+ 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products
+ derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
+
+ THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESSED
+ OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+ FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+ AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+ LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+ OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OF THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+ SOFTWARE.
+
+ Surapant Meknavin,
+ National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Thailand.
+ surapan@nectec.or.th
+---8<---
+
+The particular term has been found to break Debian Free Software Guidelines
+(DFSG), as well as Open Source Definitions, by limiting the users' rights
+to use the software in commercial cases:
+
+ 2. No charge more than random data distribution cost is associated with
+ the redistributions.
+
+Therefore, a proposed idea is to relicense it to The LaTeX Project Public
+License (LPPL), to conform to DFSG and OSD, as well as to be compatible to
+other parts of Babel package, the target of the project.
+
+Although most of its maintainership over 6 years is done by TLWG members,
+that is done under the license terms granted by NECTEC, the copyright holder.
+
+Hence, the original author and copyright holder have been contacted for a
+grant to relicense it to The LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL).
+
+The original author's response is positive:
+
+---8<---
+ From: "Surapan Meknavin" <surapan@siamguru.com>
+ To: "Theppitak Karoonboonyanan" <thep@linux.thai.net>
+ Cc: "Kamthorn Krairaksa" <kamthorn.krairaksa@nectec.or.th>
+ Subject: Re: thailatex license
+ Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:32:49 +0700
+
+ Dear Thep,
+
+ Assuming that LPPL does not conflict with DFSG, I agree that the thailatex
+ package should be licensed under LPPL. I don't think there should be any
+ problem to remove the term you mentioned to make it free, as no one involved
+ in the package wants to make any money out of this since the beginning and
+ the term may be just there because we didn't aware of it. However, because
+ NECTEC is the entity who is taking care of thailatex package K. Kamthorn may
+ be the right person to help realize this.
+
+ Best,
+ Surapan
+---8<---
+
+And the response from NECTEC is:
+
+---8<---
+
+ From: "pansak siriruchatapong" <srpansak@truemail.co.th>
+ To: <Thep@linux.thai.net>
+ Cc: "'Kamthorn Krairaksa'" <kamthorn.krairaksa@nectec.or.th>,
+ "pansak siriruchatapong" <pansak.siriruchatapong@nnet.nectec.or.th>
+ Subject: relicense thailatex
+ Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 21:18:52 +0700
+
+ Dear Theppitak
+
+ Subject: Thai LaTeX Relicensing
+
+ The thailatex package owned by NECTEC is currently distributed under
+ non-commercial license, which is found to break open source definitions.
+ To make it true open source according to NECTEC's original intention,
+ and to be compatible with upstream source into which it is aimed to
+ merge, NECTEC agrees to change the license terms to the LaTeX Project
+ Public License (LPPL), and hereby assigns Mr. Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
+ from Thai Linux Working Group (TLWG) to proceed the relicensing, and to
+ maintain the project as the Current Maintainer, as specified in the
+ license.
+
+ Dr.Pansak Siriruchatapong
+
+ Director of National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC)
+
+---8<---
+
+Therefore, thailatex is licensed under the LaTeX Project Public License
+(LPPL) since version 0.4.0.
+