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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Manuel_P=E9gouri=E9-Gonnard?= <mpg@ELZEVIR.FR>
Subject: Re: using expl3 for latex2e packages
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Alexander Cherepanov a écrit :
>> particular point in time and being allowed to change it would violate the
>> right of people to express a viewpoint and have it been heard
> 
> First problem is that nobody can distribute l3newsXX now because 
> there's no license for it at all. If you want anybody to distribute 
> l3newsXX you should at least give them permission to do this.

I think you take it the wrong way, the first question is: do the LaTeX team want
anybody to distribute l3newsNN.pdf? There is a problem with the current status
only if the answer is yes. And since l3news are not on CTAN, maybe it means the
team doesn't want it to be distributed except on the latex-project site.

> Second problem is that Debian folks treat any bits as software (and I 
> agree with them) so license should be a free software license if you 
> want Debian to distribute l3newsXX. (Note that this is just my 
> understanding, not a statement by Debian.)
> 
Actually, this is not Debian-specific. TeX Live also tends to distribute only
free content (be it software and documentation) and sometimes refuses to include
(or removes) documentation for which the source is not available. (Though TeX
Live's criterion for "free" are less drastic than Debian's: eg, TeX Live accepts
documents using non-free fonts while Debian insists that eveything must build
from source on a free system, and TeX Live accepts invariant sections and the
like in GFDL.)


Manuel.