Debian Bug report logs - #483215
texlive-latex-recommended: license status of extsizes is not documented in the upstream distribution

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Package: texlive-latex-recommended; Maintainer for texlive-latex-recommended is Debian TeX Task Force <[email protected]>; Source for texlive-latex-recommended is src:texlive-base (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Frank Küster <[email protected]>

Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 20:18:02 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: upstream

Found in version texlive-base/2007-14

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Report forwarded to [email protected], Frank Küster <[email protected]>, Debian TeX Maintainers <[email protected]>:
Bug#483215; Package texlive-latex-recommended. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Frank Küster <[email protected]>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Frank Küster <[email protected]>, Debian TeX Maintainers <[email protected]>. (full text, mbox, link).


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From: Frank Küster <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: texlive-latex-recommended: license status of extsizes is not documented in the upstream distribution
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 22:17:06 +0200
Package: texlive-latex-recommended
Version: 2007-14
Severity: important

in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=356853#64, the
original author agreed with the public ___domain license which the current
maintainer, James Kilfiger, suggested.

But after that nothing happened, I mixed up names in the mail to James
Kilfiger, and he didn't react.

We should follow up on this and make sure that a version with a proper
licensing notice is uploaded to CTAN. Preferrably by preparing an
updated readme with the license text and filelist, and sending it to
James for review, offering to do the upload.

Regards, Frank

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (99, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages texlive-latex-recommended depends on:
ii  texlive-common                2007-14    TeX Live: Base component
ii  texlive-latex-base            2007-14    TeX Live: Basic LaTeX packages

Versions of packages texlive-latex-recommended recommends:
ii  latex-beamer   3.06.dfsg.1-0.1           LaTeX class to produce presentatio
ii  latex-xcolor   2.09-1                    Easy driver-independent TeX class 
ii  prosper        1.00.4+cvs.2006.10.22-1.1 LaTeX class for writing transparen
ii  texlive-latex- 2007-14                   TeX Live: Documentation files for 

Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii  debconf                      1.5.11etch1 Debian configuration management sy
ii  ucf                          2.0020      Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages texlive-latex-recommended is related to:
pn  tetex-base                    <none>     (no description available)
ii  tetex-bin                     2007-14    TeX Live: teTeX transitional packa
ii  tetex-extra                   2007-14    TeX Live: teTeX transitional packa
ii  tex-common                    1.10       common infrastructure for building

-- debconf information:
  tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
  tex-common/check_texmf_missing:

-- 
Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)




Added tag(s) upstream. Request was from Frank Kuester <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:36:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Changed Bug submitter to 'Frank Küster <[email protected]>' from 'Frank Küster <[email protected]>' Request was from Don Armstrong <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:27:29 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Information forwarded to [email protected], Debian TeX Maintainers <[email protected]>:
Bug#483215; Package texlive-latex-recommended. (Sat, 27 Jul 2013 18:36:09 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Sam Geeraerts <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Debian TeX Maintainers <[email protected]>. (Sat, 27 Jul 2013 18:36:09 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #14 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sam Geeraerts <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Status
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 20:34:19 +0200
I came across this bug while checking license issues for Debian
derivative gNewSense. It looks like this is the only unresolved one left
in the list of "serious issues" in debian/copyright.

What's the current status? Can we assume that everything in extsizes
falls in the public ___domain?



Information forwarded to [email protected], Debian TeX Maintainers <[email protected]>:
Bug#483215; Package texlive-latex-recommended. (Thu, 08 Aug 2013 19:33:07 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Frank Küster <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Debian TeX Maintainers <[email protected]>. (Thu, 08 Aug 2013 19:33:08 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Message #19 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Frank Küster <[email protected]>
To: Sam Geeraerts <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Bug#483215: Status
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 21:33:07 +0200
Sam Geeraerts <[email protected]> writes:

> I came across this bug while checking license issues for Debian
> derivative gNewSense. It looks like this is the only unresolved one left
> in the list of "serious issues" in debian/copyright.
>
> What's the current status? Can we assume that everything in extsizes
> falls in the public ___domain?

I don't think that anything has changed: Both authors have expressed by
e-mail their will to license it as Public Domain. What remains to be
done is:

>> We should follow up on this and make sure that a version with a proper
>> licensing notice is uploaded to CTAN. Preferrably by preparing an
>> updated readme with the license text and filelist, and sending it to
>> James for review, offering to do the upload.

Regards, Frank



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