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- Copyright 2011-2013 Karl Berry <tex-live@tug.org>
-
- This file is free software; the copyright holder
- gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
- with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
-
-The biber executables we include in TeX Live are created by the biber
-maintainers and third-party builders. They essentially bundle up the
-many modules which biber requires, using the Par::Packer mechanism.
-This process is described in the biber documentation. It isn't feasible
-to incorporate it in the standard TL build.
-
-Nevertheless, we want the result of TL's "make install" to be the full
-bindir contents. So, we commit here the pre-made binaries for the
-platforms for which they are available. The ones made by the biber
-maintainers come through CTAN and our ctan2tl installs them; the ones
-made by other folks we add manually here. In any case, our make merely
-checks if an executable is present here in the source directory for the
-current platform, and if so, installs it.
-
-The complication is hidden in the phrase "current platform". TL has its own
-ideas about platform names, and the mapping from config.guess output to TL
-platform name is not trivial. Therefore, we use copies of the standard
-TeXLive/TLUtils.pm and TeXLive/TLConfig.pm in ../../texk/tests, to avoid
-duplicating the platform-detection logic.
-
-The copies in ../../texk/tests/TeXLive are strictly slaves and are kept in
-sync via the "srclist-update" mechanism; see Master/tlpkg/dev/srclist.txt.
-
-For any real information about or discussion of biber, please see their
-web site at http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net.