On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:28:58AM +0100, David Carlisle wrote: > In that case probably it's best if we just all come back then. > It will be a lot of work finalising the details of a rewrite of LPPL > and if the only benefit of that is that you declare LaTeX suitable for > the free part of Debian, that effort will be completely wasted if TeX > and the fonts are not in the free part.
> I'd like to see LaTeX classed as Free by Debian (because it is Free) > but distributing LaTeX separately from TeX would be non sensical > and lead to massive user confusion. So if TeX and the CM fonts were in > non-free I'd suggest you distribute latex from there as well, even if > latex had a licence that you would be happy to classify as free. FWIW, you wouldn't even need to ask. :) Debian policy requires our 'main' archive to be self-contained; even if a piece of software meets the DFSG, if it depends on other software that does not, it's placed in a separate archive section called 'contrib'. And I definitely think moving LaTeX to contrib would be a loss for all Debian users. Cheers, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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