They can still be accessed with the \brexit command... Steve
> On Nov 2, 2018, at 21:12, Dominik Wujastyk <[email protected]> wrote: > > The UK hyphenations patterns must stay within TeXlive, that's a given. So > let's change the license on the pattern files. As co-creator of the file, I > hereby agree with the MIT license. I don't know if Graham Toal, the person > who worked with me on producing these patterns, can be reached. I'll try. I > am certain it was Graham's intention, like mine, that these patterns should > always be freely available to everyone. > > Since Phil Taylor is the official custodian of these patterns, perhaps he > should also give his assent. > > Do you want me to edit the file appropriately? Or will Phil, or you, Mojca? > > Thanks for bringing this to my attention! > > Best, > Dominik > > >> On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 at 06:11, Mojca Miklavec <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> Dear Dominik, >> >> According to Debian we will probably have to delete the British >> hyphenation patterns from TeX Live unless the licence changes. See: >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=912557 >> >> In general it is becoming increasingly problematic to use custom >> (free-text) licences for each individual file. (It's problematic >> enough to keep up distributions of millions of different files with >> well-established licences, let alone having each individual lawyer >> check whether the licence in file X is compatible with the licence in >> file Y for N^2 combinations of those and ever increasing N.) >> >> A while ago we started suggesting the pattern authors to agree with >> the MIT licence, but some other licences might be acceptable as well >> (note that LPPL in particular is not acceptable for a number of >> projects). >> >> Best regards, >> Mojca
