El mar, 08-09-2009 a las 18:03 -0500, Karl Berry escribió: > texlive-base # 477060 > texlive-latex-base # 483217 > > I am the chief maintainer of TeX Live. I am not aware of any nonfree > software included (that won't be fixed in the next release). My policy > is for TeX Live to follow the GNU (not Debian) free software guidelines. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477060 is about > amslatex. It uses the same license used by Don Knuth in many of his TeX > files, which was long since declared free according to rms, whatever > conclusions Debian reaches. (There is no doubt the wording is not good > by today's standards.) And AMS said they would be fixing the license in > the next release. > > 483217 is about a very few specific LaTeX files. I will review/remove > as appropriate. The bug report is some 16 months old, so I expect at > least some of them have already been handled. > > In short, I see no reason to blacklist texlive.
I'm glad to hear that. I got to know about this bugs via the Venenux list yesterday and I didn't had the time to review them, but of course a full review is needed for every package before being blacklisted.
