Hi all! You know what is coming ... First statement: I would prefer to have context in Debian proper, but if we cannot get anyway with this, putting all the stuff into the nonfree section might be an option, although it doesn't sound right. On Fre, 22 Dez 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
Moreover, it's not acceptable for a Debian upload (and IMHO hardly acceptable for providing an archive for download) to mix in one archive GPL'ed and PD files, without clearly listing which is which. After all, PD means "you can do anything", while the GPL is Copyleft, or in other words one of the most restrictive Open Source licenses.
Ok, I made a list of files in the for zips and took a look. Now it would
be nice to have statements from the respective people about the license:
Please see included stuff:
First cont-img.zip:
./tex/context/sample/cow.pdf
./tex/context/sample/hacker.jpg
./tex/context/sample/mill.png
./tex/context/sample/spider.eps
I assume/hope that these are PD
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cont-fnt contains a huge bunch of vf/afm/tfm/map files. I assume that
they were generated from some fontinst source, but this is missing.
Anyway, there is no accompanying readme or whatsoever besides the one
for lucida.
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cont-ext seems to be ok besides a few points:
t-lettrine.tex does not have a license statement
t-urwgaramond, type-urwgaramond, type-urwgothic: no license
statement
A different thing is that the sources of many doc are not included:
./doc/context/third/bnf/t-bnf.pdf NOSOURCE
./doc/context/third/chromato/chromato-demo.pdf NOSOURCE
./doc/context/third/chromato/chromato-doc.pdf NOSOURCE
./doc/context/third/cmscbf/cmscbf-demo.pdf NOSOURCE
./doc/context/third/cmscbf/cmscbf-doc.pdf NOSOURCE
./doc/context/third/cmttbf/cmttbf-demo.pdf NOSOURCE
./doc/context/third/cmttbf/cmttbf-doc.pdf NOSOURCE
./doc/context/third/construction-plan/construction-plan-demo.pdf NOSOURCE
./doc/context/third/construction-plan/construction-plan-doc.pdf NOSOURCE
./doc/context/third/degrade/degrade-demo.pdf NOSOURCE
./doc/context/third/degrade/degrade-doc.pdf NOSOURCE
./doc/context/third/french/french-demo.pdf NOSOURCE
./doc/context/third/french/french-doc.pdf NOSOURCE
./doc/context/third/typearea/typearea-demo.pdf NOSOURCE
./doc/context/third/typearea/typearea-doc.pdf NOSOURCE
So I would have to put them in something like context-nonfree (like
other context documentation)
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Finally cont-tmf seems to be clear, I didn't check all the files, I hope
that I will get a blanket statement like:
All the files in cont-tmf are GPL, but the files with filename
containing koei* which are CC-plus-ND.
This way I can just strip the koei* stuff and put it into
context-nonfree.
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So please let me know ...
Best would actually be to put a files MANIFEST.GPL, MANIFEST.PD,
MANIFEST.CC-plus-ND into all the zip files. This way we could just
forget about all this and ONLY if you add a file you have to update the
MANIFEST.*.
Does this sound reasonable?
I attach the MANFIEST.$zipfile to these email where I added some
comments.
Best wishes
Norbert
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