On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:37:21 +0200 Sam Geeraerts <[email protected]> wrote:
> Benedikt Ahrens schreef: > > > > Hello, > > > > I finally received an answer to my request to the AMS. Their > > licensing will be unified. > > The new wording has already been applied to the following > > distributions: > > > > 1) AMSFonts v3 -- released last month. (The Type 1 font files are > > released under the SIL OFL, btw.) > > > > 2) The core AMS document classes (amsart.cls, amsbook.cls, and > > amsproc.cls) -- there was a minor maintenance release last month. > > Some of the related files may still have the old license. > > > > 3) AMSrefs > > > > The bad news is that we still have not had occasion to update the > > core amsmath package and related files. We hope to release an > > upgrade of amsmath at the end of this year or early next year, but > > I'm not in a position to make any hard promises. > > > > What we could do, if it would help, is add a 00LICENSE file to the > > current distribution that contains the new license, an explanation > > of the situation, and a statement that this supersedes the one in > > the individual files. I suspect that strictly speaking this is > > legally dicey, but it would certainly make our intentions clear. > > AMS probably own all the code, so I think this is legally sound and > good enough for our purposes. It would be good to check with the FSF > licensing lab, though. I have changed the status of the bug[1]. Its now NEEDSINFO, BLOCKER, target release deltah (2.3). I'll adjust the status when we get word back from the FSF as to their opinion. Sam/Benedikt, have either of you emailed the FSF yet? kk [1] http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00248 -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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