-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
I am the current maintainer for the package revtex, which is a collection of LaTeX style files to be used in manuscripts submitted for publication in the journals published by the American Physical Society. The license of the upstream version 3.1, which makes the current revtex package, prohibits taking money for the distribution or use of the files except for a nominal charge for copying, etc. It makes the upstream version 3.1 inelegible for debian/main. Recently, version 4 of the upstream product has been released, under the Latex Project Public License (http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.html). My question for debian-legal is: Does the Latex Project Public License satisfy the Debian Free Software Guidelines? My understanding is that in general it does not, due to the clause "You may not modify in any way a file of The Program that bears a legal notice forbidding modification of that file," but revtex's upstream version 4 can still be considered as free since none of its files bears such a notice. Am I right? Best regards, Alexei Kaminski http://people.debian.org/~kaminski/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8cp6yxdagDsAIz8MRAkAtAJwPbW4QdjaezdqXC+um6p8VgNbV1QCeJ1IX 5Kr2s+bY9k+FeKVw9ASURaw= =rye5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----