On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Robby Findler <[email protected]> wrote: > Does it seem okay to provide a script that downloads the .cls file > from the jfp website and tuck it into the (already installed) > distribution (presumably in a user-specific place)?
Yes, this is a well-known workaround in these sorts of situations. It's used for packages that install Flash on lots of Linux distributions, for example. I think it would probably be sufficient to provide a .cls file that errors with a message indicating where to go to get the file, although the script you describe would certainly be a helpful addition. > If so, then we can at least set up a drdr test that does that and > checks to see if scribble produces exactly the same .pdf file for some > well known scribble input file, so we get notified problems when they > move the url or make a new version of the file or something. > > Robby > > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Matthew Flatt <[email protected]> wrote: >>> At Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:44:54 -0500, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: >>>> At least for the JFP file, it's pretty clearly a copyright violation >>>> for us to distribute the file at all -- on the web page or elsewhere. >>>> We'd have to download it from the CUP site. >>>> >>>> For the ACM file, I emailed the contact email for the style file about >>>> the license. >>> >>> Did you e-mail anyone at JFP, yet? >> >> I have not, although one of the JFP editors is on this list :) >> >>> Looking again, I can imagine reading the "jfp.cls" file Robby's way. >>> The intent of "use" may be "produce a document", and the overall intent >>> might permit redistribution of "jfp.cls" to others who are producing >>> JFP documents. >> >> That's certainly possible, but redistributing the file requires the >> permission of the copyright holder, and the tone of the notice >> suggests that they aren't very flexible about these things. >> -- >> sam th >> [email protected] >> > -- sam th [email protected] _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
