[tex-live] Style grverb and genmpage contain non-free licenses

Dr. Werner Fink werner at suse.de
Mon May 13 16:42:30 CEST 2013


Affected files:

grverb/tex/latex/grverb/grverb.sty


lic_match_id 167950:
---------------------
| %% Copyright $YEAR $OWNER. All rights reserved.
| %% 
| %% --------------------------------------------------
| %% 
| %% It may be distributed under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public
| %% License, as described in lppl.txt in the base LaTeX distribution.
| %% Either version 1.1 or, at your option, any later version.
| %% 
| %% IMPORTANT: The above license does not apply in the case of "Crete University
| %% Press", Helaklion-Crete, Greece. This publisher is not allowed to use this
| %% software or any other piece of software derived directly or indirectly from
| %% it in the production of any commercial publication, i.e., one that is being
| %% sold from bookstores, etc.

and

genmpage/tex/latex/genmpage/genmpage.sty                 
geschichtsfrkl/tex/latex/geschichtsfrkl/geschichtsfrkl.bbx
geschichtsfrkl/tex/latex/geschichtsfrkl/geschichtsfrkl.cbx

lic_match_id 12346:
---------------------
| %% For the copyright see the source file.
| %% 
| %% Any modified versions of this file must be renamed
| %% with new filenames distinct from $VAR 
| %% 
| %% For distribution of the original source see the terms
| %% for copying and modification in the file $VAR.
| %% 
| %% This generated file may be distributed as long as the
| %% original source files, as listed above, are part of the
| %% same distribution. (The sources need not necessarily be
| %% in the same archive or directory.)
-----

... does the LaTeX Project Public License allow to exclude one or
more user from using the grverb.sty?

also those files should be removed or the author may
change/remove this notice.

Werner

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