Hi Jeremy, Thank you for your email.
On Sun, Feb 01, 2026 at 08:30:36PM -0800, Jeremy Tribby wrote: > I have been working on an open source project that uses a TeX-based > linebreaker You’re not the first ;-) but it’s always interesting to hear that TeX’s algorithms are used elsewhere. What is your project? > The computer scientist Janka Chlebíková, author of the Slovak patterns, > wrote back to let me know that she is supportive of more permissive use. That’s very good; I just changed the licence to MIT (no dual use) in the master file (https://github.com/hyphenation/tex-hyphen/blob/ac5045f7552b1b4fa4ab8aaba9e4a9bd72bcf5e6/hyph-utf8/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-sk.tex) as we’re trying to harmonise all files to that licence. > I saw the note in the tex-hyphen repo about contacting the > maintainers via this address; please let me know if I can help / if there's > any action to take (such as a PR to the repo on GitHub) You don’t need to do anything. We’ll make an upload to CTAN and the file will make its way to the distributions under its new licence, and in any case it’s already published on GitHub. Best, Arthur
