Comment 9 for bug 27858

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In , Frank Küster (frank-debian) wrote : Re: Bug#345604: ConTeXt documentation is non-free

Florian Weimer <email address hidden> wrote:

> * Ralf Stubner:
>
>>> | 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.
>
> But we lack the ConTeXt source code for those PDFs, do we? This means
> it still has to go into non-free.

Obviously, unless we get the source code - will talk to Hans once I find
time.

Florian, are you on a general search for non-free docs, and looking at
more files in tetex-doc? Then please also send a Debbugs-Cc to
<email address hidden> ("Woeful copyright file").

Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer