Re: TeX licensing

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On 04/07/2016 07:45 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>> "FW" == Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> FW> Richard's recent comments regarding the MMIX license (which is
> FW> derived from the licenses for other (C)WEB programs) reminded me of
> FW> a different issue.
> 
> It wasn't all that long ago that TeXlive underwent a rather significant
> and time consuming license audit.  I know that spot, along with others,
> put in a huge amount of time to get everything in shape and remove bits
> from our texlive packaging that weren't freely licensed.  TeX doesn't
> change very quickly so I would be quite surprised if things had
> regressed since then.
> 
> Some of the discussion can be found in the thread beginning here:
> 
> https://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2011-December/030735.html

Are you sure licenses of the core components were even investigated?

For pdftex, we have

catalogue-license gpl

in tldbp, and for tex, it's

catalogue-license knuth

, but pdftex is a derivative work of the tex component.

Florian
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