[tex-live] texi2dvi in executable path?

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Mon Oct 3 22:55:58 CEST 2011


2011/10/3 Siep Kroonenberg <siepo at cybercomm.nl>:
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 08:06:19PM +0100, Robin Fairbairns wrote:
>> George N. White III <gnwiii at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > texinfo was removed from TeX Live a few years ago, but may be available as a
>> > (nonfree!) package if you are using linux, macports on MacOS X, etc.
>>
>> texinfo _is_ in tex live, and has never, to my knowledge, been out of it
>> since sebastian put together the very first one.  a non-free package for
>> texinfo, or for texi2dvi, would seem eccentric, since both are licensed
>> gpl.
>
> I was not quite accurate. There is no texinfo format, but there _is_
> a texinfo macro package, and it is still in TL.
>
> On my Ubuntu system I have a package texinfo-doc-nonfree. Debian has
> its own standard of free. The converters and some of the
> documentation are Debian-free, but other pieces of the documentation
> are not.
>
AFAIK in Debian documentation is free iff all its sources are free and
available under a free license.
> --
> Siep Kroonenberg
>



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