MAINTAINERSHIP thailatex was originally created by Surapan Meknavin in 1999, as a project under the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC). Granted by its license terms, it has been later imported to a public CVS and maintained by Thai Linux Working Group (TLWG) community since version 0.2 in 2000. RELICENSING Before version 0.4.0, thailatex was released under non-commercial license: ---8<--- This package, "Thai Extension for LaTeX", is copyright (C) 1999 National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Thailand. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of the program must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. No charge more than random data distribution cost is associated with the redistributions. 3. The origin of this software must not be misinterpreted; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgement in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required. 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OF THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. Surapant Meknavin, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Thailand. surapan@nectec.or.th ---8<--- The particular term has been found to break Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG), as well as Open Source Definitions, by limiting the users' rights to use the software in commercial cases: 2. No charge more than random data distribution cost is associated with the redistributions. Therefore, a proposed idea is to relicense it to The LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL), to conform to DFSG and OSD, as well as to be compatible to other parts of Babel package, the target of the project. Although most of its maintainership over 6 years is done by TLWG members, that is done under the license terms granted by NECTEC, the copyright holder. Hence, the original author and copyright holder have been contacted for a grant to relicense it to The LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL). The original author's response is positive: ---8<--- From: "Surapan Meknavin" To: "Theppitak Karoonboonyanan" Cc: "Kamthorn Krairaksa" Subject: Re: thailatex license Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:32:49 +0700 Dear Thep, Assuming that LPPL does not conflict with DFSG, I agree that the thailatex package should be licensed under LPPL. I don't think there should be any problem to remove the term you mentioned to make it free, as no one involved in the package wants to make any money out of this since the beginning and the term may be just there because we didn't aware of it. However, because NECTEC is the entity who is taking care of thailatex package K. Kamthorn may be the right person to help realize this. Best, Surapan ---8<--- And the response from NECTEC is: ---8<--- From: "pansak siriruchatapong" To: Cc: "'Kamthorn Krairaksa'" , "pansak siriruchatapong" Subject: relicense thailatex Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 21:18:52 +0700 Dear Theppitak Subject: Thai LaTeX Relicensing The thailatex package owned by NECTEC is currently distributed under non-commercial license, which is found to break open source definitions. To make it true open source according to NECTEC's original intention, and to be compatible with upstream source into which it is aimed to merge, NECTEC agrees to change the license terms to the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL), and hereby assigns Mr. Theppitak Karoonboonyanan from Thai Linux Working Group (TLWG) to proceed the relicensing, and to maintain the project as the Current Maintainer, as specified in the license. Dr.Pansak Siriruchatapong Director of National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) ---8<--- Therefore, thailatex is licensed under the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL) since version 0.4.0.