[tex-live] pdfa-1b.xmp (licence)

Rainer Schöpf rainer.schoepf at proteosys.com
Sun May 3 12:30:43 CEST 2009


On Sat, 2 May 2009 at 23:17 +0100, Robin Fairbairns wrote:

 > Rolf Niepraschk <Rolf.Niepraschk at gmx.de> wrote:
 > 
 > > The licence of the file
 > > 
 > >   texmf-dist/tex/latex/pdfx/pdfa-1b.xmp
 > > 
 > > seems to me problematic.
 > 
 > er ... um ... slightly.  probably shouldn't be on ctan, even.
 > 
 > i *hate* authors who send us stuff, which later turns out to be licensed
 > in this sort of way.  (the most recent was an indic language thing,
 > which on examination -- while i was working on the catalogue -- proved
 > to be restricted to the univ of washington.  it had been on ctan for
 > years.)
 > 
 > my instinct is to withdraw the whole package from ctan, and announce
 > our reasons for so doing.  however, i shall await other people's
 > opinions.

Either remove it completely or remove only that particular file.

 Rainer


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