[Fedora TeX Live] Unavoidable question: texlive for F-17? :-)

Michael J Gruber michaeljgruber+gmane at fastmail.fm
Mon Nov 14 09:17:13 CET 2011


Tom Callaway venit, vidit, dixit 11.11.2011 21:31:
> On 11/11/2011 03:19 PM, José Matos wrote:
>> OK, it is that time of the year again... :-)
>>
>> Now that F-16 is out (and in good shape FWIW) the question comes again.
>>
>> What needs to be done for texlive to be imported in to rawhide (to be F-17)?
>>
>> Personally it is very difficult to justify that one of Fedora motto's
>> "First" can be applied to texlive-2007 in 2012. :-D
>>
>> I know the amazing work done by Jindrich to have texlive in shape and
>> according to Fedora guidelines, so what is the extra mile that needs to
>> be crossed to have texlive-2011 in F-17?
> 
> Legal audit, as I've said before.

Of course, and people could have looked that up.

Yet that leaves many wondering what in texlive-2011 is less legal than
texlive-2007 is, which is being carried forward to current releases no
matter what. If legality is a matter of the packaging rather than the
packaged content then why don't we package texlive-2011 like
texlive-2007 - but really, what notion of legality would that be:
Monolithic is legal when split packaging is not?

I am sure there are good answers to these questions, but I don't see
them communicated on
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Features/TeXLiveLegalAudit, e.g.

Unfortunately, those fp wiki pages also seem to be out of date a bit,
and raise other questions, for example about the font policy
(LiberationSans-Regular.ttf is in gcstar, FlightGear-data and
liberation-sans-fonts, e.g.).

So, I think that making sure that the same policies apply to all
packages, and communicating the reasoning would actually help in raising
user contributions. I mean, we don't need coders here - any .*TeX user
can contribute. [Working updmap thingy would help acquire more early
adopters also... I might give it a shot on F16.]

In any case, thanks to everyone who's helping with this.

Michael



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