Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Artistic License

[Sam Geeraerts]

Op Sat, 27 Jul 2013 21:51:15 GMT
schreef address@hidden (Karl Berry):

> Several files in extsizes are under the LPPL: extarticle.cls,
> extreport.cls, size{14,17,20,8,9}.clo.  Seems good enough to me
> (speaking as the maintainer of TeX Live).  Of course, if you (or
> anyone) wants to contact the extsizes authors to get them to do it
> perfectly, so much the better.

OK, I'll trust your judgement on that.

> Speaking as a long-time GNU maintainer, license-question-answerer,
> etc.: it has never been a do-or-die requirement that every file have
> a license notice, although it is certainly the best practice.
> Although Savannah tries hard to enforce that (at registration time),
> the rest of the world doesn't.

Sure, and luckily that's also not an FSDG requirement. But as this was
listed in a "serious problems" section, I thought there might be a
history with TeX where these things are/were often a real problem.