Comment 6 for bug 27858

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <20060104102246.GB16787@thinkpad>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:22:46 +0100
From: Ralf Stubner <email address hidden>
To: Florian Weimer <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#345604: ConTeXt documentation is non-free

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 07:27 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Package: tetex-doc
> Version: 3.0-11
> Severity: serious
>
> The license is clearly non-free:
>
> | All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
> | stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any
> | means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise,
> | without prior written permission of the publisher.

(from /usr/share/doc/texmf/context/manual/cont-eni.pdf.gz)

This sounds bad, indeed. However, I think that the ConTeXt manual is
actually covered by the general ConTeXt license in
/usr/share/doc/texmf/context/base/mreadme.pdf.gz and
/usr/share/doc/texmf/context/base/LICENSE.teTeX, which is free.

cheerio
ralf