[tex-live] newalg

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 04:37:01PM +0200, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:

> You mean, replacing lines 752 to 766 in docstrip.tex, (v 2.5d dated
> 2005/07/29)?
> 
> Of course I don't want to actually do it, just to illustrate the poor
> legal value of any such automatic statement.

No need, docstrip loads a configuration file docstrip.cfg if present.

> PS: I think the first part of the text, before "important notice" is enough:
> 
> %%
> %% This is file `newalg.sty',
> %% generated with the docstrip utility.
> %%
> %% The original source files were:
> %%
> %% newalg.dtx  (with options: `package')
> %%
> 
> You read this you know it's a generated file and the actual licence
> statement (if any) is to be searched in newalg.dtx. Period.

docstrip also could provide a warning (or even error) that tells
the author about the licence trouble that comes with a missing
preamble with license information.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>