FS#10358 - Please add the LPPL to the common licenses

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Anonymous Submitter - Sunday, 04 May 2008, 18:57 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Thursday, 08 May 2008, 03:44 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Dan McGee (toofishes)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: The LPPL (The LaTeX Project Public License) is the license of LaTeX itself and of many
packages made for LaTeX.
Please consider to add it to the common licenses under /usr/share/licenses/common

Additional info: See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
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Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Thursday, 08 May 2008, 03:44 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Added in licenses package version 2.4
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Monday, 05 May 2008, 19:30 GMT
Dan : you might consider adding it at the same time as the CC license. BTW, my prosper package in community uses this license.
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Monday, 05 May 2008, 19:51 GMT
Care to give me a brief rundown of some packages that would be covered by this license? I don't have texlive installed, but is that and all its addons under this umbrella?
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Monday, 05 May 2008, 21:04 GMT
mind that texlive is not in extra but community. searching extra for latex gives 3 results
Comment by Anonymous Submitter - Tuesday, 06 May 2008, 19:08 GMT
Also teTeX uses a lot of packages which stand under LPPL.
Comment by Anonymous Submitter - Wednesday, 07 May 2008, 16:12 GMT
dolby: May I quote Devland? "Once a license is used in two or more packages, it becomes common (assuming it's in an official repository or community). "
toofishes: IMHO the license policy of TeXLive is the same as the license policy of teTeX, namely to let only free software be part of the distribution. The LPPL has the aim to give a possibility for users to change certain files to their needs, but to prevent that these files are distributed without a notification to other users, that they are not the original ones. It is difficult to say which packages are under LPPL in TeXLive teTeX without browsing the hundreds of directorys of these distributions - at least I do not know a way to automatically do this. But AFAIK most of the packages use it, and some package that do not have been explicitely removed from the distribution (i.e. "french").

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