On 04/07/2016 07:45 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: >>>>>> "FW" == Florian Weimer <[email protected]> writes: > > FW> Richard's recent comments regarding the MMIX license (which is > FW> derived from the licenses for other (C)WEB programs) reminded me of > FW> a different issue. > > It wasn't all that long ago that TeXlive underwent a rather significant > and time consuming license audit. I know that spot, along with others, > put in a huge amount of time to get everything in shape and remove bits > from our texlive packaging that weren't freely licensed. TeX doesn't > change very quickly so I would be quite surprised if things had > regressed since then. > > Some of the discussion can be found in the thread beginning here: > > https://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2011-December/030735.html
Are you sure licenses of the core components were even investigated? For pdftex, we have catalogue-license gpl in tldbp, and for tex, it's catalogue-license knuth , but pdftex is a derivative work of the tex component. Florian _______________________________________________ legal mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/[email protected]
