[Fedora TeX Live] TeXLive inclusion in Fedora - timeline?

[Michael Ekstrand]

On 09/23/2011 09:44 AM, Tom Callaway wrote:
> On 09/22/2011 06:16 PM, Jussi Lehtola wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> the status page at
>>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TeXLive
>> hasn't been updated in a year.
>>
>> I'd like to know when I can expect the new TeXLive packaging to appear
>> in Fedora. I guess Fedora 16 is out of the question; will TeXLive be in
>> time for Fedora 17?
>>
>> The status page states that the inclusion process is 60% complete.
> 
> FWIW, I think the legal issues are still a giant roadblock. I admit to
> not having time or energy to tackle things in that area lately, but it
> probably makes sense to generate a new spreadsheet style table of the
> texlive components for tracking, something like:

High-level, what are the legal challenges for TeXLive?  My understanding
is that one of the major benefits of TeXLive is that its components have
been reviewed for free licenses.

- Michael