Re: [gentoo-dev] texlive cyrillic font : restrictive license

[Alexis Ballier]

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 04:14:06 -0700
Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote:

> On 12:49 Sun 14 Oct     , Alexis Ballier wrote:
> > while adding cyrillic packages for texlive I've come across a
> > restrictive license for the literat package.
>
> > You are allowed:
> ...
> > - to distribute fonts together with RFBR TeX distribution.
>
> > You are not allowed:
> ...
> > - to distribute this fonts as an independent package;
>
> This is the one part that concerns me. If you aren't doing this
> literally within one of the packages, rather than as a standalone
> package of its own, don't do it.

yeah... I'm afraid you're right; I had read it the wrong way, we're
distributing it as part of texlive installation, not RFBR afaik.
I had considered "you are allowed to use it with any tex distribution"
sufficient, but it's not.

Thanks, 

Alexis.