On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 02:33:26PM +0000, Jeroen Nijhof wrote:
> I have no idea how it compares with the latest version of MusixTeX
> (v. T97, as of July 8th this year).
> OpusTeX seems to be freely downloadable, but apparently
> it is not "DFSG-free", i.e. not free according to
> the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
Actually, neither is MusiXTeX (it doesn't satisfy the DFSG or the Open
Source Definition (OSD)), so both MusiXTeX and OpusTeX are in Debian's
non-free right now. (MusiXTeX was in "contrib" briefly, but its
licensed was reviewed later (in Oct. 1997) by the more experienced
Debian developers who noted that the license still fails the DFSG
guideline due to some ambiguity and uncertainty?
(Hint: Daniel, if you are reading this, are you willing to modify or clarify
the license stated in musixdoc.tex to be Open-Source compliant?)
However, if I recall correctly, OpusTeX is a lot more "non-free" than
MusiXTeX in terms of usage. I vaguely recalled that OpusTeX's author
forbids any commercial use of the package, i.e. no one is allowed to
sell sheet music generated by OpusTeX. Note that I cannot find this
restriction anywhere in OpusTeX-0.84, and I forgot if Andreas did
mention this in an e-mail or not, so I don't know if this restriction
exists in reality or just in my mind. Perhaps Andreas could confirm.
Anthony
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