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diff --git a/Master/LICENSE.TL b/Master/LICENSE.TL index a7f43a862ed..a36e0000fc6 100644 --- a/Master/LICENSE.TL +++ b/Master/LICENSE.TL @@ -2,11 +2,12 @@ $Id$ COPYING CONDITIONS FOR TeX Live: -To the best of our knowledge, all software in this distribution is -freely redistributable (libre, that is, not necessarily gratis), within -the Free Software Foundation's definition and Debian Free Software -Guidelines. If you find any non-free files included, please contact us -(references given below). +To the best of our knowledge, all software in the TeX Live distribution +is freely redistributable (libre, that is, not necessarily gratis), +within the Free Software Foundation's definition and the Debian Free +Software Guidelines. Where the two conflict, we generally follow the +FSF (see [*] below). If you find any non-free files included, please +contact us (references given at the end). That said, TeX Live has neither a single copyright holder nor a single license covering its entire contents, since it is a collection of many @@ -42,9 +43,9 @@ not us, in case of questions or problems. A new top-level README.<yourwork> file is a good place to describe the general situation. - Especially (but not necessarily) if changes or additions are made, we -recommend a clearly different title, such as "<your work> demo CD", -based on TeX Live YYYY demo (with updates)", where YYYY is the year of -TeX Live you are publishing. This credits both our work and yours. +recommend a clearly different title, such as "<your work> DVD", based on +TeX Live YYYY (with updates)", where YYYY is the year of TeX Live you +are publishing. This credits both our work and yours. - You absolutely may *not* place your own copyright on the entire distribution, since it is not your work (as stated above, TeX Live is @@ -95,16 +96,39 @@ LICENSING FOR NEW PACKAGES: Finally, we are often asked what license to use for new work. To be considered for inclusion on TeX Live, a package must use a free software -license, such as the LaTeX Project Public License, the GNU Public -License, the X Window System license, the modified BSD license, etc., or -be put into the public domain. Please see the url's below for more -discussion of this. +license, such as the LaTeX Project Public License, the GNU General +Public License, the X Window System license, the modified BSD license, +etc., or be put into the public domain. Please see the url's below for +more discussion of this. Thanks for your interest in TeX. -- Sebastian Rahtz, editor, for the TeX Live team +- Karl Berry, editor, for the TeX Live team +------------------------------------------------------------ +[*] Conflicts between FSF and Debian. +The most notable instance of legal conflict between the FSF definition +of "free software" and the Debian Free Software Guidelines is in regard +to the GNU Free Documentation License when "invariant sections" (e.g., +Front-Cover Texts, Back-Cover Texts, or Invariant Sections) are +included. (FSF considers it free, of course, and Debian doesn't.) + +The most common instance of such a license is in documentation for +official GNU packages -- such as GNU Texinfo, which is included in TeX +Live. There may be other GFDL'd files with invariant sections as well; +we have not exhaustively checked. + +For TeX Live, we decided to follow the FSF, rather than Debian. So such +documentation *is* included in the original TeX Live distribution. (In +repackagings of TL according to Debian rules, it is removed.) We surely +wish these two major organizations in the free software world could +cooperate on a documentation license acceptable to both. + +If other specific conflicts are brought to our attention, we will note +them here. + +------------------------------------------------------------ TeX Live mailing list: texlive@tug.org TeX Live home page: http://www.tug.org/tex-live/ |