On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 09:46 -0400, Matthew D Truch wrote:

I  did  a  license  audit  on  the  texlive-texmf package this morning
(derived from texlive.texmf-2007.tar.bz2, texlive.texmf-var-2007.zip),
in  the attempt to properly tag the package licenses (Distributable is
_NOT_ a valid license in Fedora).

I've  CC'd several folks,  including an upstream contact (hopefully, a
valid email).

Here's what I found:

The  majority  of  the  files are under one of the following licenses:

      LaTex Project Public License (LPPL)
      GNU Public License v2 (GPLv2)
      GNU Public License v2 or later (GPLv2+)
      Public Domain

(a  lot  of files are under the "GUST Font License", which is just the
LPPL.)

There are some files under different licenses:

Acceptable for Fedora
=====================
texmf-dist/doc/metapost/base/source/mpman.tex (MIT)
texmf-dist/tex/latex/vntex/varioref-vi.sty (LGPLv2+)
texmf-dist/doc/generic/vntex/source/vn-fonts.tex (Utopia)
texmf-dist/doc/generic/enctex/unimap.diff (UCD)
texmf-dist/doc/latex/fancyvrb/* (Artistic 2.0)

Not Acceptable for Fedora
=========================
I found several items  which  were  licensed  with  non-free licenses.
This seems to conflict with the  TexLive policies (http://www.tug.org/
texlive/copying.html), so I can only assume they're included accident-
ally.

Literat License:

There  are  several files under a "literat" license, this license does
not  permit  any  modification  of  the  fonts,  so it is non-free and
accordingly,  not  acceptable for Fedora. The files under this license
are:

texmf-dist/doc/fonts/literat/
texmf-dist/fonts/type1/paragrap/literat/
texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/literat/
texmf-dist/fonts/vf/paragrap/literat/
texmf-dist/fonts/afm/paragrap/literat/
texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/paragrap/literat/
texmf-dist/tex/latex/literat/

texmf-doc/doc/german/latex-tipps-und-tricks/literat.sty (not under the
license, but probably irrelevant without the literat bits)

Aladdin Free Public License:

The  Aladdin Free Public License is non-free, thus, not acceptable for
Fedora. The following files are under the AFPL:

texmf-dist/fonts/afm/public/qfonts/qhvcb.afm
texmf-dist/fonts/afm/public/qfonts/qhvcri.afm
texmf-dist/fonts/afm/public/qfonts/qhvcbi.afm
texmf-dist/fonts/afm/public/qfonts/qhvcr.afm
texmf-dist/fonts/afm/urw/bookman/ubkri8a.afm
texmf-dist/fonts/afm/urw/bookman/ubkr8a.afm
texmf-dist/fonts/afm/urw/bookman/ubkb8a.afm
texmf-dist/fonts/afm/urw/bookman/ubkbi8a.afm
texmf-dist/fonts/afm/urw/helvetic/uhvri8an.afm
texmf-dist/fonts/afm/urw/helvetic/uhvri8a.afm
texmf-dist/fonts/afm/urw/helvetic/uhvbi8a.afm
texmf-dist/fonts/afm/urw/helvetic/uhvr8an.afm
texmf-dist/fonts/afm/urw/helvetic/uhvb8an.afm

LPPL with commercial use restriction:

There  is  one  file  which has an additional restriction to the LPPL,
forbidding commercial use without explicit permission from the author.
This  almost certainly renders the file non-free, and it is not ok for
Fedora.

texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/multicol.sty

Artistic (original):

The  original  Artistic  license  is  non-free,  and thus,  not ok for
Fedora. These files are under the Artistic license:

texmf-dist/tex/latex/fancybox/fancybox.sty
texmf-dist/tex/latex/amscls/pcatcode.sty

If  they  could  be  relicensed  (either  dual licensed with something
acceptable, or to something like Artistic 2.0), they'd be fine.

=== Fedora specific notes ===

If  all  of  those  files  under  bad  licenses are removed,  then the
appropriate Fedora licensing tag would be:

License:  Artistic  2.0  and GPLv2 and GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ and LPPL and
MIT and Public Domain and UCD and Utopia