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- Table of contents:
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- 1. Copyright and License of the debian-specific adaptions
- 2. License of the TeX live distribution as a compilation work
- 3. Licenses of individual parts
- 3.1 Explanation of the format of the following information
- 3.2 Packages with license problems
- 3.3 Individual license texts
- 3.4 (Incomplete) list of licenses of individual parts
-
-
- 1. Copyright and License of the debian-specific adaptions
-
- Debian adaptions for these packages are licensed under the GNU General
- Public License, version 2, and are under Copyright by:
-
- Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> (2005-)
- Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch> (2006-)
-
- All code generated for the Debian adaptions is under the GNU General
- Public License.
-
- --------
-
- 2. License of the TeX live distribution as a compilation work
-
- 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).
-
- 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
- disparate packages. Therefore, you may copy, modify, and/or
- redistribute software from TeX Live only if you comply with the
- requirements placed thereon by the owners of the respective packages.
-
- To most easily learn these requirements, we suggest checking the TeX
- Catalogue at: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/ (or any
- CTAN mirror). The Catalogue is also included in TeX Live in
- ./texmf/doc/html/catalogue/, but the online version will have updates.
- Of course the legal statements within the packages themselves are the
- final authority.
-
- In some cases, TeX Live is distributed with a snapshot of the CTAN
- archive, which is entirely independent of and separable from TeX Live
- itself. (The "live" DVD in the TeX Collection is one example of this.)
- Please be aware that the CTAN snapshot contains many files which are
- *not* freely redistributable; see LICENSE.CTAN for more information.
-
-
- GUIDELINES FOR REDISTRIBUTION:
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- In general, you may redistribute TeX Live, with or without modification,
- for profit or not, according to the usual free software tenets. Here
- are some general guidelines for doing this:
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- - If you make any changes to the TeX Live distribution or any
- package it contains, besides complying with any licensing requirements,
- you must prominently mention such changes in your modified distribution
- so that users do not take your work for ours, and know to contact you,
- 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.
-
- - You absolutely may *not* place your own copyright on the entire
- distribution, since it is not your work (as stated above, TeX Live is
- not created by any single person or entity). Statements such as "all
- rights reserved" and "may not be reproduced" are especially
- reprehensible, since they are antithetical to the free software
- principles under which TeX Live is produced.
-
- - You may use any cover or media label designs that you wish. Such
- packaging and marketing details are not covered by any TeX Live license.
-
- - Finally, we make the following requests (not legal requirements):
-
- a) Acknowledging that TeX Live is developed as a joint effort by all TeX
- user groups, and encouraging the user/reader to join their user group
- of choice.
-
- The web page http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html may be referenced as
- a list of TeX user groups. We also appreciate your explicitly
- listing all the user groups as given on that page, space permitting.
-
- b) Referencing the TeX Live home page: http://www.tug.org/tex-live/.
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- c) Crediting the editor of the original TeX Live: Sebastian Rahtz.
-
- Such credits may be placed on the label of your media, your cover,
- and/or in accompanying text (for instance, in the acknowledgements
- section of a book).
-
- Finally, although it is certainly not a requirement, we'd like to invite
- any redistributors to make a donation to the project, whether cash or
- in-kind, for example via https://www.tug.org/donate.html. Thanks.
-
-
- If you have any questions or comments, *please* contact us. In general,
- we appreciate being given the chance to review any TeX Live-related
- material in advance of publication, simply to avoid mistakes. It is
- much better to correct text on a CD label or in a book before thousands
- of copies are made!
-
- We are also happy to keep anyone planning a publication informed as to
- our deadlines and progress. Just let us know. However, you should be
- aware that TeX Live is produced entirely by volunteers, and no dates can
- be guaranteed.
-
-
- LICENSING FOR NEW PACKAGES:
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- 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.
-
- Thanks for your interest in TeX.
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- - Sebastian Rahtz, editor, for the TeX Live team
-
-
- TeX Live mailing list: texlive@tug.org
- TeX Live home page: http://www.tug.org/tex-live/
-
- The FSF's free software definition: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
- Debian Free Software Guidelines: http://www.debian.org/intro/free
- FSF commentary on existing licenses:
- http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
-
- LPPL: http://latex-project.org/lppl.html or texmf/doc/latex/base/lppl.txt
- LPPL rationale: texmf/doc/latex/base/modguide.pdf
-
- -------------
-
- 3. Reference to an (incomplete) list of licenses of individual parts
-
- Individual parts of this distribution have their own copyright and
- license.
-
- 3.1 Explanation of the format of the following information
-
- Since most packages use standard licenses, we have separated the list
- of license texts and the list of packages and individual files with
- their licenses. In section 3.3 we provide the license texts and their
- abbreviations used in in the file list. The file list itself is
- generated automatically from the TeX Catalogue and can be found, for
- each binary package, in /usr/share/doc/texlive-<name>/Licenses.
-
- The information in the TeX Catalogue is checked by the Debian TeX
- maintainers and the CTAN maintainers. If you find any contradiction
- in the listing with the reality please inform us.
-
- In the case of gpl and lppl, the string without a number means that
- the license statement contains a "or any later version" statement. In
- the list in Licenses, each package has a header line like this:
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- % ccfonts: lppl (verification data:1.1:1.1:2006-03-14:frank:readme)
-
- indicating that the package ccfonts is under LPPL, exists in version
- 1.1, the license has been checked in version 1.1 on 2006-03-14 by
- "frank" (the username among the Catalogue developers, actually Frank
- Küster), and the license information is in a file "readme". After
- that follows the list of files,
-
- tex/latex/ccfonts/t1ccr.fd
- tex/latex/ccfonts/ccfonts.sty
- tex/latex/ccfonts/ts1ccr.fd
- doc/latex/ccfonts/*
-
- where the * indicates that all ordinary files in that directory belong
- to that package (but not necessarily subdirectories and files
- therein).
-
- 3.2 TODO: Packages with licensing problems
-
- [ this is copied over from teTeX, and some problems might already be
- solved ]
-
- 3.2.1 Serious problems
-
- - euler: LPPL according changelog, but no indication in file.
-
- - adrconv: No license at all for the documentation
-
- - antp: PD according to catalogue, no statement in the files, no
- sources; contacted upstream
-
- - bbm: no license statement at all, bug filed
-
- - cite: chapterbib.sty is missing a license statement in the header
-
- - Problematic files by Donald Arseneau:
-
- * chapterbib.sty: no license information
- * tabls.sty: no license information
- * import.sty: "this software is free of any restrictions"
- * relsize.sty: "public domain", nothing else
- * shapepar.sty: noncommercial
- * version.sty: no license information, not only by D.A.
- * selectp.sty: no license information
- *./source/latex/shapepar/README.shapepar
- ./source/latex/shapepar/shapepar.sty
- ./source/latex/shapepar/shapepar.ltx
- ./source/latex/hyphenat/hyphenat.dtx: no license information
-
-
- - citesort.sty: no license statement
-
- - index.doc: no license statement - probably unused
-
- - dinbrief: lppl 1.1+, but with additional restrictions which are non-free
-
- - eepic: The style files are public domain, but all the documentation
- has no license at all.
-
- - extsizes: extsizes.sty, extarticle.cls and extreport.cls, and the
- size*.clo files have a correct LPPL notice, the others have none.
- The author seems to be active on Wikipedia, tried to contact him
-
- - beamericon*: no license statement. beamerexample-seminar: just like
- seminar, which has not been investigated yet. Filed bug against beamer.
-
- - one file in the psnfss directory with unclear license:
-
- tex/latex/psnfss/8r.sty
-
- 3.2.2 Normal :-) problems
-
- - listings: LPPL, plus:
-
- ,----
- | *Modification*advice*
- |
- | Permission is granted to modify the listings package as well as
- | lstdrvrs.dtx. You are not allowed to distribute a modified version of
- | the listings package or lstdrvrs.dtx unless you change the file names
- | and provide the original files. In any case it is better to contact
- | the address below; other users will welcome removed bugs, new
- | features, and additional programming languages.
-
- This is more restrictive than LPPL 1.3 (6.a and 6.d.2). The title is advice...
-
- - ae: Just a formal problem, the GPL is included, but nowhere is it
- explicitly stated that this license applies to the package.
-
- contacted upstream
-
- - antt: gust font license, unclear which files % contacted upstream
-
-
- 3.3 Individual license texts
-
- The actual text of the licenses can either be found in
- /usr/share/common-licenses (for artistic,bsd,gpl) or in "3.2 Text of
- the licenses" below. For BSD-like licenses that just exchange the
- name of the copyright holder, we do not list the license text.
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- A. gpl (GNU General Public License)
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- The full text of the GPL is given in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
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- B. lppl (LaTeX Project Public License)
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- way for the licensee to determine which files constitute the Work.
- This could, for example, be achieved by explicitly listing all the
- files of the Work near the copyright notice of each file or by
- using a line such as:
-
- % This work consists of all files listed in manifest.txt.
-
- in that place. In the absence of an unequivocal list it might be
- impossible for the licensee to determine what is considered by you
- to comprise the Work and, in such a case, the licensee would be
- entitled to make reasonable conjectures as to which files comprise
- the Work.
-
-
-
-
- C. Artistic
- D. PD (Public domain):
-
- The file or package contains a statement equivalent to
-
- "This file is in the public domain. You may freely use, modify and
- distribute it".
-
- E. Non-standard licenses, by package name:
-
- (1) eepic.sty, eepicemu.sty:
- The macros are in public domain.
- You may distribute or modify it in any ways you like.
- epic.sty:
- You may use this file in whatever way you wish. You are requested to
- leave this notice intact, and report any bugs, enhancements, comments,
- suggestions, etc. to:
- ...
-
- (2) The Computer Modern fonts by Donald E. Knuth have a special
- license; essentially, they are public domain, but no modified
- version may use the same name, and the names "TeX" and "MetaFont"
- for the resulting programs, unless they pass the TRIP and TRAP
- tests. The complete license statement can be found in a text at
- http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb11-4/tb30knut.pdf, and the
- relevant parts are:
-
- ,----
- | My work on developing TEX, METAFONT, and Computer
- | Modern has come to an end. I willmake no further
- | changes except to correct extremely serious bugs.
- |
- | I have put these systems into the public domain so that
- | people everywhere can use the ideas freely if they wish.
- |
- | [...]
- | As stated on the copyright pages of Volumes B, D, and
- | E, anybody can make use of my programs in whatever
- | way they wish, as long as they do not use the names
- | TEX, METAFONT, or Computer Modern. In particular,
- | any person or group who wants to produce a program
- | superior to mine is free to do so. However, nobody is
- | allowed to call a system TEX or METAFONT unless that
- | system conforms 100% to my own programs, as I have
- | specified in the manuals for the TRIP and TRAP tests.
- | And nobody is allowed to use the names of the Computer
- | Modern fonts in Volume E for any fonts that do not
- | produce identical tfm files. This prohibition applies to
- | all people or machines, whether appointed by TUG or
- | by any other organization. I do not intend to delegate the
- | responsibility formaintainance of TEX, METAFONT, or
- | Computer Modern to anybody else, ever.
- `----
-
- For those who believe more in texts written on paper, we reproduce
- here the copyright page of Volume $of "Computers and Typesetting"
- by Donald E. Knuth, which present the commented code for the
- Computer Modern fonts:
-
- ,----
- | The quotations on pages 7 and 351 have been excerpted [...].
- |
- | METAFONT is a trademark of th Addison Wesley Publishing Company.
- |
- | TeX is a trademark of the American Mathematical Society.
- |
- | The programs for computer Modern are in the public domain, and readers
- | may freely generate and hand-tune their own fonts using the algorithms
- | of this book. However, use of the names is restricted: Any fonts
- | whose names cmr10 or cmbx12 or ... are identical to the standard font
- | names of this book should be fully compatible with the fonts defined
- | here; i.e., fonts with the same names are supposed to have precisely
- | the same character coding schemes and precisely the same font metric
- | files.
- `----
-
-
-
- *****
-
- F. Individual files, not belonging to any package:
-
- % cahyph.tex: LPPL 1+
- % gahyph.tex: GPL 2+
- % icehyph.tex: LPPL 1.2+
- % ruhyphas.tex: LPPL 1.2+
- % ruhyphzn.tex: LPPL 1.2+
- % sehyph.tex: LPPL 1.2+
-
-
-
- 3.4 Reference to an (incomplete) list of licenses of individual parts
-
- The file list for each binary package has the format explained above
- and can be found, for each binary package, in
-
- /usr/share/doc/texlive-<name>/Licenses.
-
- $Id: copyright 3478 2008-07-22 11:07:21Z preining $
-