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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label nonfree</title>
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-<h3>What&rsquo;s the CTAN <code>nonfree</code> tree?</h3>
+<h3>What is the CTAN <code>nonfree</code> tree?</h3>
<p/>When CTAN was founded, in the 1990s, it was unusual to publish
the terms under which a TeX-related package was distributed (or, at
any rate, to publish those terms formally).
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under which a package would be placed on the tree were hotly
contested, and the CTAN team were only able slowly to populate
the tree. It is now obvious to the team that the project would never
-be completed.
+have been completed.
<p/>The CTAN catalogue now records the nature of the licences of a
good proportion of the packages it describes (though there remain
several for which the licence is unknown, which is as good, for the
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whether you should distribute; if the package is not listed in the
catalogue, don&rsquo;t think of distributing it&rdquo;.
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-<p/>(The catalogue only has a modest
-<a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.html">list of licences</a>, but it covers the set used
+(The catalogue only has a modest
+<a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.html">list of licences</a>, but it covers the set used
by packages on CTAN, with a wild-card &ldquo;<code>other-free</code>&rdquo;
which covers packages that the CTAN administrators believe to
be free even though the authors haven&rsquo;t used a standard licence.)
+<p/>There is a corollary to the &lsquo;general rule&rsquo;: if you notice something
+that ought to be in the distributions, for which there is no catalogue
+entry, please let the CTAN team (<a href="mailto:ctan@dante.de"><i>ctan@dante.de</i></a>) know.
+It may well be that the package has simply been missed, but some aren&rsquo;t
+catalogued because there&rsquo;s no documentation and the team just doesn&rsquo;t
+understand the package.
<p/>In the light of the above, the <code>nonfree</code> tree is being
-dismantled, and its contents moved to the main CTAN tree. So
-the answer to the question is, now, &ldquo;the nonfree tree is a part of
-CTAN, and is now being merged with the main tree&rdquo;.
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+dismantled, and its contents moved (or moved <em>back</em>) to the main
+CTAN tree. So the answer to the question is, now, &ldquo;the
+nonfree tree is a part of CTAN, and is now being merged with
+the main tree&rdquo;.
<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=nonfree">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=nonfree</a>
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