Trying to get an overview of the LaTeX source code base

[Aaron Gray]

Thanks all !

Aaron

On Fri, 6 May 2022 at 23:20, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
>
>      KerTeX (restricted to a BSD license and
>     therefore suitable in places that GPL code is not acceptable).
>
> KerTeX's license has an advertising clause (like original BSD) that
> makes it incompatible with all copyleft licenses, and probably
> unacceptable in practice for the big app stores or anywhere else
> "commercial". https://kertex.kergis.com/en/license.html
>
> That is not what most people think of as the "BSD license" (for several
> decades now), which is modified BSD, that is, modified specifically to
> remove the advertising clause.
>
> Happily, Thierry agreed to release the Prote extensions under the
> standard MIT/X11 license (like XeTeX), so Martin could use them in HiTeX. -k

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Aaron Gray

Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer Language
Researcher, Information Theorist, and amateur computer scientist.