Comment 16 for bug 27858

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:11:01 +0100
From: Florian Weimer <email address hidden>
To: Frank =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=FCster?= <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>, Ralf Stubner <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#345604: ConTeXt documentation is non-free

* Frank K=FCster:

> #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.