[Fedora TeX Live] Current license review status?

[Jindrich Novy]

Hi Tom,

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 02:02:02PM -0400, Tom Callaway wrote:
> On 08/29/2012 11:12 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > I'm starting to run into issues with the rather old texlive in Fedora
> > and I was just wondering how the license review was going.  The last
> > summary appears to have been in December:
> > http://www.linux.cz/pipermail/texlive/2011-December/000344.html
> > 
> > And in that, I see four things which were indicated to be important:
> > 
> > ec, ec-euro, setspace, texdraw
> 
> I believe all license issues are now resolved in TeXLive 2012, Jindrich
> are you aware of any?

I'm currently not aware of any legal show-stoppers for TeX Live 2012.

The only blocker which makes it hard to let TeX Live 2012 be easily
introduced in Fedora is the Font Packaging Policy [1]. The problem is that
the current implementation of font packaging macros enforces to have
all TTF, TTC, PFA, PFB, PCF, OTF files in the same font family to be a
separate subpackage of the main RPM shipping fonts. The problem is
that the design of the macros allows only one subpackage per spec.
It means we need to introduce 174 new packages shipping fonts to
Fedora before the rest of the TeX Live packages can be introduced
there.

In case there wouldn't be such restriction for fonts we would need
just 2 packages to be reviewed/imported to have TeX Live 2012 in
Fedora (one for binaries, the other for CTAN noarch builds). Also it
would be much easier to maintain it/syncing it with upstream.

Jindrich

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:FontsPolicy

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