[Fedora TeX Live] Current license review status?

[Jussi Lehtola]

On Sat, 1 Sep 2012 12:31:24 +0200
Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.

So couldn't you just ask for an exception from the policy? Until the
font macros are fixed that is.
-- 
Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org