[tex-live] newalg

[Victor Ivrii]

On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr> wrote:
> Robin Fairbairns a écrit :

>>
> I tend to agree, except it's not what happens when *we* put it in TeX
> Live, but when *anyone* tries to put it in a usable form.
>
> (Well, I'm really tempted to change my local copy of docstrip.tex (the
> licence allows this) so that it says "this file, as well as its source
> \filename.dtx and the compiled documentation, can be freely used,
> distributed and/or modified under the terms of the LPPL v1.3 or higher":
> then a lot of packages would "become" free when processed for TL, which
> clearly shows how the whole thing is non-sense.)
>
> Manuel.
>

Actually I am more concerned with packages which are discovered to be
non-free and are removed from TL. Experimental version of TL really
removes packages and in any Math Dept (or similar structures) one can
find at least couple of users with the very small knowledge and very
large aplomb who would tear apart system manager if some package they
use suddenly disappears (as our sysadmin tells it is enough that they
come with "You modified something and the file we processed before
cannot be processed anymore!!! No, no, we modified nothing, it was
YOU!!!" -- then he restores from backup and diff shows that these guys
really modified their files". My esteemed colleagues go away grudging
something like "Next time we will get you")





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