[tex-live] picins is missing from tex-live

Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Sat Dec 22 01:24:26 CET 2007


Jonathan Kew writes:
 > On 21 Dec 2007, at 11:32 pm, Karl Berry wrote:
 > 
 > >     picins from CTAN/macros/latex209/contrib/picins might still be  
 > > useful,
 > >
 > > I don't have an objection in principle to including stuff written for
 > > latex209, but I was told that picins was nonfree.  (I can't read the
 > > German and don't remember the details any more.)
 > 
 > It says that it's copyright-protected, and modifications may only be  
 > made with the agreement of the authors.

Yes, but it seems that Joachim Schrodt <jschrod at acm.org> is involved
somehow and maybe he has still contact to the authors.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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