TeXlive 2008 in Fedora 11?

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Thu Jan 29 18:37:48 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 19:31 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>  We have to upgrade 2007 to 2008 and this should not be blocking on a license
> review. No other packages get a license audit on each upgrade, I don't see
> why TeXlive should be any different.
> 
> We should just upgrade TeXlive and then deal with any licensing issues if
> they are found and reported. Redoing an audit at every new version is not
> going to scale and nothing in our policies requires it.

When we suspect, and have already found, improper licenses in a set of
software, we certainly can and should block it from coming in until a
audit is done to clear ourselves of any wrong doing.  Doing otherwise
would be willful infringement.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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