On 2009-01-29 at 13:35:50 -0500, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Neal Becker wrote: >> Really? I've been reading the texlive list. I noticed they have been >> dropping many packages due to license issues. > > That proves that TeXlive upstream cares about the licensing being Free > Software, why can't we just trust them instead of redoing an audit at every > single upgrade? We already did an audit when importing the 2007 version, > for all other packages that's sufficient (in fact in most cases we trust > the reviewer and don't even go through FE-Legal!), why not here? Because we know it is bad. Let me start putting facts on the table: In texlive-texmf-20080822, there are three main directories: texmf/ texmf-dist/ texmf-doc/ Assuming that texmf-doc/ is all documentation, I focused my initial audit on texmf/ and texmf-dist/. texmf/ has 1269 files in it. texmf-dist/ has 58326 files in it. I finished auditing texmf/. Of the files in there, I could not determine any licensing information for 615 (48.5%) contain no licensing information whatsoever. One file claims to be "BSD-style", but the license text is missing. I've barely scratched the surface of texmf-dist, but I have already found: - texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/cs/* is under the BaKoMa-CM.Fonts license (http://www.netlib.org/bibnet/BaKoMa-CM.Fonts) which is non-free. - texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/xepersian/IranNastaliq.ttf is non-free - texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/xepersian/koodak.ttf is non-free, due to modification restrictions - texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/xepersian/LateefRegOT.ttf is non-free - texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/xepersian/royab.ttf is non-free, due to modification restrictions - texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/xepersian/ScheherazadeRegOT.ttf is non-free - texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/xepersian/terafikb.ttf is non-free, due to modification restrictions - texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/xepersian/terafik.ttf is non-free, due to modification restrictions I cannot find licensing for: - texmf-dist/fonts/type1/arphic/* - texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bluesky/* Also, given that the licensing information is almost never included in the texlive fonts themselves, nor is the documentation packaged next to the files, I have to try to unravel what file belongs to what documentation and make guesses about the licensing. I have tens of thousands of files still to audit, just in this tarball, not even getting to the main texlive package. ~spot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
