Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

2009-08-19 Thread Karl Goetz
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:59:45 +0200 Benedikt Ahrens benedikt.ahr...@gmx.net wrote: Karl Goetz wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:16:31 +0200 Sam Geeraerts sam...@elmundolibre.be wrote: I would like to ask the AMS for an updated license for the CURRENT version, as they offered in their

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

2009-08-13 Thread Karl Goetz
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:16:31 +0200 Sam Geeraerts sam...@elmundolibre.be wrote: Sam Geeraerts schreef: Karl Goetz schreef: 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

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

2009-08-13 Thread Benedikt Ahrens
Karl Goetz wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:16:31 +0200 Sam Geeraerts sam...@elmundolibre.be wrote: Sam Geeraerts schreef: Karl Goetz schreef: 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

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

2009-08-13 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Benedikt Ahrens schreef: I see. Then I think we can leave it where it is. I still think we should include an updated licence file for it though; and a reference back to this discussion. Thoughts on that? kk You might want to reply to the AMS. They promised to deliver an updated license text,

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

2009-08-12 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Sam Geeraerts schreef: Karl Goetz schreef: 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? I assume nobody

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

2009-08-06 Thread Karl Goetz
On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:00:24 +0200 Sam Geeraerts sam...@elmundolibre.be wrote: Karl Goetz schreef: 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.

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

2009-08-05 Thread Karl Goetz
On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:37:21 +0200 Sam Geeraerts sam...@elmundolibre.be 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)

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

2009-08-05 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Karl Goetz schreef: 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? I assume nobody has up until now, so I've

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

2009-08-04 Thread Benedikt Ahrens
Hello, I finally received an answer to my request to the AMS. Their licensing will be unified. I think that the issue is a bit similar to the Mozilla story: it is more a question of trademark than of copyright. Modified versions may not carry the same file name (which is also used as package

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

2009-08-04 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Benedikt Ahrens schreef: Hello, I finally received an answer to my request to the AMS. Their licensing will be unified. I think that the issue is a bit similar to the Mozilla story: it is more a question of trademark than of copyright. Modified versions may not carry the same file name

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

2009-07-31 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Karl Goetz schreef: Its also possible a number of the Debian packages are built against ams because its available - they might be re-introduce-able by rebuilding them. It's weird that they don't know about these dependencies. Packages Not sure what you mean here. I mean: the Debian devs say

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

2009-07-31 Thread Karl Goetz
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:01:55 +0200 Sam Geeraerts sam...@elmundolibre.be wrote: Karl Goetz schreef: Its also possible a number of the Debian packages are built against ams because its available - they might be re-introduce-able by rebuilding them. It's weird that they don't know about

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

2009-07-30 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Karl Goetz schreef: Worst case scenario is that nothing has changed, so we'd have to remove the whole thing. It seems this would not only hurt TeX users badly, but might also break other stuff: we do not know whether any of these files is used for building Debian packages We broke X badly,

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

2009-07-29 Thread Karl Goetz
-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack HI all, Would one of the tex users like to hack on texlive-base? gNS bug report: http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00248 Upstream bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477060 I suspect its much the same level effort

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

2009-07-29 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Karl Goetz schreef: HI all, Would one of the tex users like to hack on texlive-base? gNS bug report: http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00248 Upstream bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477060 I suspect its much the same level effort as the texlive-generic-extra package. I

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

2009-07-29 Thread Karl Goetz
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:51:04 +0200 Sam Geeraerts sam...@elmundolibre.be wrote: Karl Goetz schreef: HI all, Would one of the tex users like to hack on texlive-base? gNS bug report: http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00248 Upstream bug:

Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

2009-07-29 Thread Benedikt Ahrens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I haven't had any answer from the AMS yet. Later today I'll contact the Debian maintainer for some news. ben Karl Goetz wrote: On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:51:04 +0200 Sam Geeraerts sam...@elmundolibre.be wrote: Karl Goetz schreef: HI all, Would