Jeremias Maerki wrote: > Todos, as I see them: > - Remove all incompatible hyphenation files from CVS which are not clear > to be ok. > - Find Apache-compatible hyphenation files.
I found a generic TeX distribution that came with my Red Hat (the relevant files are installed into /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen). I /think/ these are standard "generic" TeX files, which would be subject to Knuth's license, which IMO is Apache-compatible. It seems like the best approach is to start with these, & let contributors modify them as necessary. They contain "do not change" caveats from Knuth, but after reading his various papers on the subject, IMO, the purpose of this is to maintain TeX compatibility among diverse systems. People are free to take his work as a starting place, but you cannot use the name "TeX". > - Contact the authors of non-GPL and non-LPPL hyphenation files for > permission to use and redistribute their hyphenation files. This would be unnecessary if we start with the right base & build from there. > - Maybe write a parser for Tex hyphenation files so they can be directly > read by FOP (without conversion to XML, so people can download the > hyphenation files themselves and make them responsible to follow the > individual licences) I have no objection to this, but the conversion does not look very complicated, and if we distribute our own, then there is no need for it. Also, if we build our own, we should credit Knuth & TeX, but also explicitly reference the Apache license in the files, so that contributors know they are contributing under that license. Victor Mote --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
