[tex-live] two questions

Jobst Hoffmann j.hoffmann at fh-aachen.de
Fri Jul 31 00:11:02 CEST 2009


Am Donnerstag, den 30.07.2009, 23:17 +0200 schrieb Norbert Preining:
> On Do, 30 Jul 2009, Jobst Hoffmann wrote:
> > 1. at the moment i'm missing the answers-package, which was included in
> > texlive 2008. Is this because of the development status of TL 2009 or
> > are there other reasons (copyright ... - but compare the copyright of
> > textmerg, it is included in TL 2009)?
> 
> r10564 | karl | 2008-09-12 00:15:19 +0200 (Fri, 12 Sep 2008) | 1 line
> 
> rm answers, nonfree
> 
> 
> 
> But textmerg contains:
> %% This file is now placed in the public domain.  You are encouraged to
> %% distribute it together with the sources from which it was generated.
> so it is ok.
> 
> Why do you assume that they have the same copyright?
I just did a simple grep -i copyright <filename>, sorry for the noise!
> 
> > 2. I've deleted old mails, so I'm not sure if I'm carrying coals to
> > Newcastle: if a package xxx has only a README file as documentation and
> > there is a package xxxyyy with a .pdf-file as documentation, texdoc xxx
> > shows the xxxyyy.pdf (try texdoc cmap). What can I do to see the README?
> 
> Cannot answer that.
Heiko gave the hint, thanks to him!
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Norbert
> 
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