[tex-live] copyright of texlive

[Karl Berry]

    A LICENSE file is included in the CD. This file explains the
    whole situation.

Sure, but the whole point here is that Springer put on its own invalid
proprietary copyright.  We cannot let it stand unchallenged.

BTW, could someone scan the CD label and put it on the web somewhere?
The exact text would be useful to see.

    We can put this information on the book's Web page. I hope this is
    fine.

It is fine, and good, as far as it goes.  Thank you.
There is also Springer's web page:
http://www.springer.de/cgi/svcat/search_book.pl?isbn=0-387-95217-9&currency=Euro&language=English&lastResult=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.de%2Fsearch97cgi%2Fs97_cgi%3F%26fulltextQuery%3Ddigital%2Btypography%26fulltextOperator%3D%253C%2523AND%253E%26umlaute%3Don%26waehrung%3DEuro%26sortspec%3DErscheinungsjahr%2Bdesc%26action%3Dsearch%26collection%3Dcatalog_addition%26collection%3Dcatalog_metadata%26language%3Den%26queryText%3D%2528digital%253C%2523and%253Etypography%2529%26resultTemplate%3Dcatalog.result.hts%26sourceQueryText%3D&lastSearch=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.de%2Fsearch97cgi%2Fs97_cgi%3Faction%3Dformgen%26template%3Dcatalog.search.hts%26fulltextQuery%3Ddigital%2Btypography%26fulltextOperator%3D%253C%2523AND%253E%26umlaute%3Don%26waehrung%3DEuro%26sortspec%3DErscheinungsjahr%2Bdesc&newSearch=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.de%2Fsearch97cgi%2Fs97_cgi%3Faction%3Dformgen%26template%3Dcatalog.search.hts%26language%3Den&verity=true&cookie=done

But we also need some kind of action to be taken in regard to the
physical books, as I suggested before.  Otherwise, anyone who buys it
will, at first glance, believe TL is proprietary software.

I find it easy to believe that it was a "standard" imposed by Springer
production out of ignorance, and not out of malice.  However, that does
not relieve them (and you, as the principal author) from having to make
some remedy.  I know this is a huge hassle, but is that not reasonable?