[tex-live] Pretest TL2010 (successes)

[Karl Berry]

Dr. Fujita sent me the following in 2005, which definitively ended all
thought of including xymtex in TL, unless and until he changes his policy.

If you want to write him and need his email address, write me offline.

Robin: shouldn't be "knuth", must be "other-nonfree".

karl


Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 09:16:29 +0900
From: Fujita Shinsaku
To: karl at tug.org (Karl Berry)
Subject: Re: XyMTeX licensing

Dear Dr. Berry

Thank you for your announcement on XyMTeX. 
Because XyMTeX has not been fully developed and should be 
equipped with other additional functions, 
I wish to restrict the disturibution within 
personal use and CTAN distribution. 

> If that is truly what you intend, then we will regretfully have to
> remove XyMTeX from TeX Live (and other free software distribution).  

So I think this conclusion would be inevitable under your policy. 

Sincerely Yours

Shinsaku Fujita

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karl at tug.org (Karl Berry) wrote:

> Dear Dr. Shinsaku,
> 
> I'm one of the people developing the TeX Live software distribution for
> the TeX user groups.  The Debian project recently asked me about XyMTeX,
> which we do currently include in TeX Live, based on your license
> statement being analogous to that of Knuth's for TeX itself.
> 
> But now it seems that back in April, Debian contacted you about this,
> and you replied that only personal + CTAN redistribution was allowed.
> 
> If that is truly what you intend, then we will regretfully have to
> remove XyMTeX from TeX Live (and other free software distribution).  Of
> course we'd much prefer to keep distributing it.
> 
> So, may I ask you to clarify/confirm, please?
> 
> If you do intend the user groups and distributions to be able to include
> it, then I'd like to further suggest that the LPPL
> (http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/) is perhaps the simplest widespread
> choice that seems to come closest to your wishes.
> 
> Thanks for all your work, and best regards,
> Karl