[tex-live] Report on packaging TeX Live for linux
Karl Berry
karl at freefriends.org
Tue Mar 6 00:01:18 CET 2007
Hi Francois,
Thank you for all the reports. It will take some time to work through
them. Meanwhile, congratulations on your success :).
- Is it considered "appropriate" to split collections of packages so
that documentation is separated from the rest?
It's your choice.
- And is it OK to exclude the {texmf,texmf-dist,texmf-doc}/source/
branch from a distribution?
Then, at least for the GPL'd packages, you have to make a written offer
to distribute the source for at least three years. This is true for the
big source/.tar.bz2, too. (I don't imagine you make any use of the
Windows binaries, so the source-win32.zip isn't needed.) Ie, you need
to keep a copy of the source yourself and have it available from
wherever you distribute.
Although legally you could refrain from distributing sources of packages
under some of the other licenses, I think it would be simpler, and much
preferable, to just provide the sources for everything.
Best,
karl
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