This package was debianized by Baruch Even BST files are by Nadav Har'El with modifications by Dekel Tsur . The main package was downloaded from CVS repository: CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.ivritex.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ivritex module ivritex See website: http://ivritex.sourceforge.net/ Upstream Author: Tzafrir Cohen The original author of heblatex was Borris Lavva, however he stopped developing it and Tzafrir Cohen resumed the work on the hebrew support, the package is renamed to ivritex to avoid the copyright minefield. ------------------------------------------------------ Acknowledgment The following people have contributed to Hebrew package in one way or another, knowingly or unknowingly. In alphabetical order: Irina Abramovici, Yaniv Bargury, Yael Dubinsky, Sergio Fogel, Dan Haran, Rama Porrat, Michail Rozman, Alon Ziv. Johannes Braams is the author of babel - a multilingual support for LaTeX. Tatiana Samoilov and Vitaly Surazhsky found a number of serious bugs in preliminary version of Hebrew package. A number of other people have contributed comments and information. Specific contributions are acknowledged within the documentation. Boris Lavva is the original developer of heblatex. ------------------------------------------------------ In the following copyright, bugs.txt, legal.txt and manifest.txt refer to /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex/base/bugs.txt.gz, /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex/base/legal.txt and /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex/base/manifest.txt.gz respectively. ------------------------------------------------------ Copyright: (of original heblatex package) The copyright similar to other LaTeX 2e packages is added to prevent inconsistency in version numbers and wide-spread distribution of unsupported macro files (which was common with the old distributions). Changes, bug fixes and additions are always welcome, but they should be or distributed under other name, or incorporated in this package (by mailing me). -------------------------------------------------- Copyright 1997-1998 Boris Lavva and any individual authors listed elsewhere in this file. All rights reserved. For further copyright information, and conditions for modification and distribution, see any other copyright notices in this file. This file is contributed to the Babel system, release 3.6. -------------------------------------------------- This system is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. For error reports concerning UNCHANGED versions of this file no more than one year old, see bugs.txt. Please do not request updates from me directly. Primary distribution will be through the CTAN archives. IMPORTANT COPYRIGHT NOTICE: You are NOT ALLOWED to distribute this file alone. You are allowed to distribute this file under the condition that it is distributed together with all the files listed in manifest.txt. If you receive only some of these files from someone, complain! Permission is granted to customize the declarations in this file to serve the needs of your installation, provided that you comply with the conditions in the file legal.txt. However, NO PERMISSION is granted to distribute a modified version of this file under its original name. MODIFICATION ADVICE: If you want to customize this file, it is best to make a copy of the source file(s) from which it was produced. Use a different name for your copy(ies) and modify the copy(ies); this will ensure that your modifications do not get overwritten when you install a new release of the standard system. You can then easily distribute your modifications by distributing the modified and renamed copy of the source file, together with a suitable .ins file, taking care to observe the conditions in legal.txt; this will ensure that other users can safely use your modifications.