On Yaum al-Arbi'a 24 Thu al-Qi`dah 1425 4:10 pm, Thamer Mahmoud wrote: > Munzir Taha writes: > > On Yaum al-Ithnain 22 Thu al-Qi`dah 1425 7:04 pm, Yousef Raffah wrote: > > > I have read on different web sites including the Arabic LyX HowTo on > > > the documentation page about ArabTex, now is it required to have it in > > > order for me to write documents/books or whatsoever in Arabic? > > > > Yes. > > But it's non free. From the arabtex.faq: > > [ArabTeX] is free for scientific and strictly private, noncommercial > use. For commercial purposes you need a license agreement; inquire > at the author's address.
If this is the case, how come it's distributed with all Free GNU/Linux distros?! I feel as if this has changed during the project life cycle but they forgot to mention it ;) From the site: ArabTeX may be redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License distributed from CTAN archives in the directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; either version 1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. > I have absolutely NO reason to assume otherwise, but the copyright > notice on the debian package does not mention this condition for some > reason :-\ > > In any case, the vrms package rocks :-) -- Munzir Taha PGP Key available gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.mandrakesecure.net F0671821 Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer Mandrake Club Member Maintainer of the Open Arabic Bugs Project at http://wiki.arabeyes.org/OpenBugs Maintainer of Fedora Arabic Translation Project CIW Designer, ICDL, MOUS, Linux+, LPI 101 New Horizons CLC, Riyadh, SA _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
