On Sun, 12 Feb 2012, Zdenek Wagner wrote: > The author has right to decide how his package can be used. If people > are discouraged to distribute it, TL maintainers feel discouraged and > do not distribute it. I am also discouraged, thus I only point to > CTAN. I have tried this package with a few scripts and have not found > any problem so far.
We don't need to go through the "discourage" discussion again, but it does seem clear to me that it's only *modified* versions that you're discouraged from distributing, and distribution of *unmodified* versions is not discouraged. Much like a Creative Commons "no derivatives" license. Whether that's "non-free" depends on how important you think modification is to freedom; but I'm sure that if the TL maintainers distributed it at all then they would be distributing it unmodified, so it'd be silly of them to feel discouraged from doing that just because the author doesn't want them to do something completely different. -- Matthew Skala [email protected] People before principles. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
