Dear TeX user,
I have maintained teTeX for over 5 years and now I need your help in
order to make it really "free software". The first step is to find all
files which are not covered by a free software license. Any file covered
by a license not mentioned in the list given below should be reported to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (please, do not send such reports directly to me).
If you want to help, make sure to have a teTeX-beta release which is
dated from 4 Aug 2000 or later.
Please report any file which does not have one of these licenses:
- LaTeX Project Public License
(LPPL, see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/base/lppl.txt)
- GPL (see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html)
- LGPL (see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html)
- Public Domain (PD, see
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#PublicDomainSoftware)
- the old BSD license or the revised BSD license
Other licenses might or might not be ok, so we want to find them and
check them.
If you want to help, please make sure you have the *original* teTeX-beta
version released by me. The archives which need license checking are:
ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmf-beta-20000804.tar.gz
and
ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/teTeX-texmfsrc-beta-20000804.tar.
gz
You can find these files on other CTAN servers, too, so please use a mirror
near to you.
BTW: for the third teTeX tarball (teTeX-src-beta-20000804.tar.gz,
containing the sources for the binaries), we are quite sure that every
file is covered by a free software license.
Thank you for your help!
Thomas Esser
