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-<head>
-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label uploads</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>Contributing a file to the archives</h3>
-<p/>You have something to submit to the archive &#8212; great! Before we even
-start, here&#8217;s a check-list of things to sort out:
-<ol>
-<li> Licence: in the spirit of TeX, we hope for free software; in
- the spirit of today&#8217;s lawyer-enthralled society, CTAN
- provides a
- <a href="http://mirrors.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/licenses.html">list of &#8220;standard&#8221; licence statements</a>.
-<li> Documentation: it&#8217;s good for users to be able to browse
- documentation before downloading a package. You need at least a
- plain text <i>README</i> file (exactly that name); in addition a
- PDF file of the package documentation, prepared for screen
- reading, is highly desirable.
-<li> Name: endless confusion is caused by name clashes. If your
- package has the same name as one already on CTAN, or if your
- package installation generates files of the same name as something
- in a &#8220;normal&#8221; distribution, the CTAN team will delay
- installation while they check that you&#8217;re doing the right thing:
- they may nag you to change the name, or to negotiate a take-over
- with the author of the original package.
- <a href="FAQ-findfiles.html">Browse the archive</a> to ensure uniqueness.
-<p/> The name you choose should also (as far as possible) be somewhat
- descriptive of what your submission actually <em>does</em>; while
- &#8220;descriptiveness&#8221; is to some extent in the eye of the beholder,
- it&#8217;s clear that names such as <i>mypackage</i> or <i>jiffy</i>
- aren&#8217;t suitable.
-</ol>
-<p/>If you are able to use anonymous <i>ftp</i>, you can upload that
-way. The file <i>README.uploads</i> on CTAN tells you
-where to upload, what to upload, and how to notify the CTAN
-management about what you want doing with your upload.
-<p/>You may also upload via the Web: each of the principal CTAN
-sites offers an upload page &#8212; choose from
-<a href="http://www.ctan.org/upload.html">http://www.ctan.org/upload.html</a>,
-<a href="http://www.dante.de/CTAN/upload.html">http://www.dante.de/CTAN/upload.html</a> or
-<a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/upload.html">http://www.tex.ac.uk/upload.html</a>; the pages lead you through the
-process, showing you the information you need to supply. This method
-enforces one file per upload: if you had intended to upload lots of
-files, you need to bundle them into an &#8216;archive&#8217; file of some sort;
-acceptable formats are <code>.zip</code> and <code>.tar.gz</code> (or
-<code>.tar.bz2</code>).
-<p/>If you can use neither of these methods, or if you find something
-confusing, ask advice of the
-
- <a href="mailto:ctan@dante.de">CTAN management</a>:
-if the worst comes to the worst, it may be possible to mail a
-contribution. This really is a last-resort route: none of the
-CTAN sites is anyone&#8217;s regular workstation, so if you mail to
-one of the maintainers, that maintainer then has to upload to
-CTAN.
-<p/>If it&#8217;s appropriate (if your package is large, or regularly updated),
-the CTAN management can arrange to <i>mirror</i> your
-contribution direct into the archive. At present this may only be
-done if your contribution is available via <i>ftp</i>, and of
-course the directory structure on your repository must &#8216;fit&#8217;.
-<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>README.uploads</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/README.uploads">README.uploads</a>
-</dl>
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=uploads">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=uploads</a>
-</body>