Copying conditions for TeX Live7

We have done our best to ensure that the software on this copy of TeX Live meets the requirements of the Debian Free Software Guidelines, which means that all the material contained on the CD may be freely used and copied.

You can check the detailed requirements placed thereon by the owners of the respective software packages by consulting Graham Williams' TeX Catalogue at: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/catalogue.html (or any CTAN mirror, of course) (also included on this CD at ./texmf/doc/help/catalogue/catalogue.html, but the online version will have updates).

For packages not included there, or just to be redundantly safe, you should read the conditions on each individual package you wish to copy, modify, or redistribute.

If you make any changes to any package or the CD, of course you should prominently mention such changes in any distribution so that users do not take your work for ours, and know to contact you, not us, in case of questions or problems.

If you are a package author, you can help with our work by ensuring your copying conditions meet certain guidelines. The Debian Free Software Guidelines are the most coherent statement of these we have read. Also, whatever your copying conditions are, please get your package into the TeX Catalogue above.

We recommend using an existing license, such as the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL), the GNU Public License (GPL), the GNU Library Public License (GLPL), the X Window System license, etc. Please see http://www.debian.org/intro/free for more discussion of this.

If you have any questions or comments, we urge you to contact us by email at tex-live@tug.org. We also maintain web pages about TeX Live at http://tug.org/texlive.

Thanks for your interest in TeX.

- Sebastian Rahtz, editor, for the TeX Live team
May, 2002


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