Copyright file for tetex-base, tetex-extra and tetex-doc. Table of contents: 1. Copyright and License of the debian-specific adaptations 2. License of the teTeX distribution as a compilation work 3. (incomplete) list of licenses of individual parts 4. Text of the licenses 1. Copyright and License of the debian-specific adaptations Debian adaptations for this Package are under Copyright by: Christoph Martin christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de (1998-2002) Adrian Bunk (2000-2002) C.M. Connelly (2002) Atsuhito KOHDA (2002-) Hilmar Preusse (2003-) Stefan Ulrich (2003-) Frank Küster (2003-) Florent Rougon (2004-) This list has been compiled in July 2004, therefore it is probably incomplete (missing names and too short date ranges). Contributors of translations and other small patches are mentioned in changelog.Debian. The package was downloaded from CTAN:/systems/unix/teTeX -------------- 2. License of the teTeX distribution as a compilation work The teTeX distribution, i.e. the tetex-base, tetex-extra and tetex-doc packages, together with the tetex-bin and tetex-src packages, is Copyright by Thomas Esser (1994-2005). The teTeX distribution is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License may be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. -------------- 3. (incomplete) list of licenses of individual parts - kpathsea: libkpathsea is distributed under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License, which can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL. - TeX, METAFONT: tex.web and mf.web have a special license; essentially, they are public domain, but no modified version may use the same name, and the names "TeX" and "MetaFont" for the resulting programs, unless they pass the TRIP and TRAP tests. Online, the complete license statement can be found in a text at http://www.ntg.nl/maps/pdf/5_34.pdf, and the relevant parts are: ,---- | My work on developing TEX, METAFONT, and Computer | Modern has come to an end. I will make no further | changes except to correct extremely serious bugs. | | I have put these systems into the public domain so that | people everywhere can use the ideas freely if they wish. | | [...] | As stated on the copyright pages of Volumes B, D, and | E, anybody can make use of my programs in whatever | way they wish, as long as they do not use the names | TEX, METAFONT, or Computer Modern. In particular, | any person or group who wants to produce a program | superior to mine is free to do so. However, nobody is | allowed to call a system TEXor METAFONT unless that | system conforms 100% to my own programs, as I have | specified in the manuals for the TRIP and TRAP tests. | And nobody is allowed to use the names of the Computer | Modern fonts in Volume E for any fonts that do not | produce identical tfm files. This prohibition applies to | all people or machines, whether appointed by TUG or | by any other organization. I do not intend to delegate the | responsibility formaintainance of TEX, METAFONT, or | Computer Modern to anybody else, ever. `---- For those who believe more in texts written on paper, we reproduce here the (identical) copyright page(s) of Volumes B and D of "Computers and Typesetting" by Donald E. Knuth, which present the commented code for TeX and METAFONT, respectively (the main text of these books can be obtained by "weave tex.web; tex tex.tex"): ,---- | TeX is a trademark of the American Mathematical Society | | METAFONT is a trademark of Addison Wesley Publishing Company. | | The program for TeX is in the public domain, and readers may freely | incorporate the algorithms of this book into their own programs. | However, use of the name 'TeX is restricted to software systems that | agree exactly with the program presented here. `---- -------------- 4. Text of the licenses The source code for tetex-bin contains the following license: The files within this directory are all free software. Most of these files are copyright by some author(s), but I have taken care that the following conditions are true: - all files can be distributed: no license fee is required. - using these files (even for commercial purpose) is not restricted. - modification of files is allowed or an existing translation scheme effectively makes modification unnecessary. E.g. Knuth's WEB files must not be changed, but the build process allows you to change the generated .c files by "change files". Please, check the license of a file before you do modifications; you might need to mark those modifications or to rename the program. - the distribution of modified files and subsets of these files is allowed, but please check the licenses if you do that. If you find any file that violates any of these conditions, please report that to me. February, 2003, Thomas Esser te@dbs.uni-hannover.de