LICENSE.TL4

Karl Berry karl@cs.umb.edu
Tue, 13 Apr 1999 15:42:39 -0400 (EDT)


Sebastian, as long as you're contemplating an update, here's a slightly
clarified license.tl4.

I also updated fontname's typeface.map with i3 = imperial, but if you
don't want to hassle with that, I don't think the world will crumble :).


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You may copy, modify, or redistribute software from this CD only if you
comply with the requirements placed thereon by the owners of the
respective software packages.  To learn these requirements, please first
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ftp://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/catalogue.html
(or any CTAN mirror, of course)
(also included on this CD at ./texmf/doc/help/catalogue/catalogue.html,
 but the online version will have updates).

For packages not included there, or just to be redundantly safe, you
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If you plan on redistributing the entire CD contents (as in making your
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If you make any changes to any package or the CD, of course you should
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questions or problems.

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We hope these conditions will be relaxed in future editions of TeX Live.
If you are a package author, you can help with this by ensuring your
copying conditions meet certain guidelines.  The Debian Free Software
Guidelines are the most coherent statement of these we have read; please
see http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines.  Also, whatever
your copying conditions are, please get your package into the TeX
Catalogue above.

We recommend using an existing free software license, such as the LaTeX
Project Public License, the GNU Public License, the GNU Library Public
License, the X Window System license, the modified BSD license, etc.
Please see http://www.debian.org/intro/free for more discussion of this.

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Thanks for your interest in TeX.

- Sebastian Rahtz, editor, for the TeX Live team
April 13, 1999