Comment 14 for bug 27858

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In , Florian Weimer (fw) wrote : Re: Bug#345604: ConTeXt documentation is non-free

* Frank Küster:

> #218195 is about the woeful copyright file, not the woeful copyright of
> a particular file... What we really need to do is to sort out which
> parts of teTeX are under which license, and document that clearly (and
> remove if necessary), and to that end collecting information about
> GFDLed stuff is important. Therefore I'd like to have the information
> in that bug, too.

Okay, I understand.

> I guess the license is GPL-incompatible, but DFSG-free. And *that* is
> not a practical problem, since nobody would want to reuse the code from
> tex.web in a new project.

But pdfTeX does, and it claims to be GPLed.