[tex-live] TEXINPUTS problem

[Karl Berry]

    Web2c is free software.  The files I wrote (originally for the Free
    Software Foundation) are covered by the GNU General Public License --

I guess I forgot to update that README.  I made almost all of Kpathsea
LGPL at one point, and Olaf rewrote the brace-expansion code to finish
it off.  

    Kpathsea is copyright (C) 1997-2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

That's wrong.

    covered by the terms of both the TeX copyright and
    the GNU General Public License.

That's wrong too.

The simplest version message would probably be something like:

  TeX 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.3)
  kpathsea version 3.5.3
  Copyright (C) 1978-2004 D.E. Knuth.  [[Why did this start in 97?]]
  This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
  PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This is the same text as cp --version.

But they've been wrong for 10 years or more.  Please, let's not force
ourselves to do another rebuild just to fix the damn version message.
Next year is soon enough.  Technically, the version message has no legal
relevance, it's just informational.

(BTW, Vladimir, if you want to rebuild powerpc-aix and sparc64-linux
again to get peb's e-tex fix, now would be a good time. :)

    So, it is very well possible that XeTeX is violating the GPL.

No, it isn't in violation, and that is good.

Thanks,
k