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Bug 240321 - dev-tex/floatflt compatible with texlive or new tetex?
Summary: dev-tex/floatflt compatible with texlive or new tetex?
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: TeX project
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Reported: 2008-10-06 20:09 UTC by Lukács, Árpád
Modified: 2010-11-08 00:21 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Lukács, Árpád 2008-10-06 20:09:19 UTC
floatflt has been removed from texlive due to license reasons ("do not sell clause"). Installing it with emerge does not interfere with the license.
However, to use floatflt now a separate ebuild would be necessary.
It should be checked if dev-tex/floatflt installs its files in the correct directories (under /usr/share/texmf-site)


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-10-06 20:16:14 UTC
I don't see a bug.
Comment 2 Lukács, Árpád 2008-10-06 20:19:30 UTC
See bug no. 240262
Filing this bug has been recommended by aballier@gentoo.org
dev-tex/floatflt is now masked, and therefore now one cannot install floatflt under texlive with emerge.
Comment 3 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev 2008-10-07 05:03:03 UTC
current license is:

%  Copyright (c) 1994-1998 by Mats Dahlgren <matsd@sssk.se>,
%  http://www.homenet.se/matsd/ .  All rights reserved.
%
%  You may use the `floatflt' package freely, but at your own
%  risk.  The authors of floatflt.dtx and floatflt.ins (the
%  complete `floatflt' package distribution) can not be held
%  responsible for any consequence of your using any of these
%  files, or files created from these, including hardware,
%  software, and data damage.  You may not make any changes to
%  the files floatflt.dtx or floatflt.ins.  You are allowed to make
%  changes to the `\documentclass' and/or `\usepackage' commands
%  of the file `floatexm.tex'.  You may incorporate
%  the code from these files in other files under different
%  names, provided the original authors are given full credit for
%  their work and that you yourself take the complaints from the
%  user(s) of your file(s).  You may freely distribute the
%  files floatflt.dtx and floatflt.ins, provided that you
%  always distribute `floatflt.dtx' and `floatflt.ins' together
%  at the same time.

This ressembles a lot to the lppl restrictions; what license would that be for us? freedist?
Comment 4 Lukács, Árpád 2008-11-13 08:32:41 UTC
Currently, floatflt installs under /usr/share/texmf
With TeXlive (and I think also with newer versions of teTeX) it should install under
/usr/share/texmf-dist
and its documentation under
/usr/share/texmf-doc
I think this is the only compatibility problem between texlive and floatflt.
Comment 5 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2010-02-24 21:46:16 UTC
The original "nosell" license issue has been resolved (it already was at the time when this bug was filed): <http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg135340.html>

Ironically, dev-tex/floatflt was removed from the tree last November, with commit message: "Drop tex packages that are replaced by tetex or texlive installs. Masked since 2007."
Comment 6 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev 2010-11-08 00:21:25 UTC
readded, unmasked & all good, you'll have to ask your arch team for rekeywording though