Comments | spot: The TeX Live Legal Audit (and how you can help)

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The TeX Live Legal Audit (and how you can help)

Nov 23, 2010 16:46

One of the remaining big ticket items for legal audit in Fedora is TeX Live. A few years ago, we got a version of TeX Live into Fedora, and after the fact, we discovered that the licensing on much of it was confusing or non-free. Jindrich Novy has been working for a while on packaging up TeX Live in a more separated way (package per component as ( Read more... )

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Debian anonymous November 24 2010, 05:02:06 UTC

Debian thanks you!

Public Domain ext_109965 November 24 2010, 11:13:07 UTC

This is lightly off-topic and I don't want to argue about anything, I trust you and Red Hat legal.

But something in what you wrote caught my attention:
« Thus, it is important to determine where the code was written (and who wrote it). »

What if I am French, but working and living in the US, and I write some code while I am in the US?

I'm pretty sure that I'll get an answer along the lines of « it depends, and it gives me nightmares only thinking about it, please don't do that », but I thought I'd ask in case it's actually a simple matter. :)

On the topic though, as a LaTeX user I'm glad to know the Texlive auditing is moving forward. Thank you for that.

Re: Public Domain ext_109965 November 24 2010, 15:07:06 UTC

It's not trivial or simple, but the short answer (besides "it depends") is that the general thought is that the jurisdiction where the work was created may be more important in determining validity of PD than the citizenship of the author.

Re: Public Domain spot November 24 2010, 15:07:44 UTC

Above comment is by me, btw, just forgot to login.

anonymous November 27 2010, 15:31:10 UTC

Hi tom!!!!!!!!!!!

I've got this super idea!!!!!!!!! I don't know what is this text-live, but put it in a RPM-Fusion server!!!!!!!! There is a lot of free, but not really free, software there!!!!! This could save you a lot of headaches in reading long and boring licenses!!!!! Even if the software is not 100% GPL compatible, if you host it overseas, you can get the job done!!!!!! in no time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ask to RPM-Fusion to host and manage it for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is very smart!!!!!
Less work for you, and the work' done for all!!!!!!!

bye!!!!!!!!!!
~bee!!!!!!