[tex-live] distribution policy (was verbatimcopy package missing)

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Fri Sep 19 14:16:05 CEST 2008


2008/9/19 Ulrike Fischer <news2 at nililand.de>:
> Am Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:29:28 +0100 schrieb Robin Fairbairns:
>
>> Ulrike Fischer <news2 at nililand.de> wrote:
>> ...
> Yes, on the miktex list somebody also suggested to split the package. In
> my opinion it would be even senseful to split the documentation in "doc"
> and "source of doc".
>
> (And even better it would be if all the content not related directly to
> minitoc would go in an other document).
>
>> minitoc's documentation is outright mad.
>
> megadoc from minitoc ;-).
>
IMO the free licenses say that the sources must be available from the
same source but do not say that all users must install them. Thus
option "do not install sources" may be generally useful. It is
sufficient if the user knows how to obtain the sources if he or she
wants them.
> --
> Ulrike Fischer
>
>



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