Re: again with lyx/latex

[Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at newhorizons dot com dot sa>]

On Yaum al-Arbi'a 24 Thu al-Qi`dah 1425 4:10 pm, Thamer Mahmoud wrote:
> Munzir Taha writes:
>  > On Yaum al-Ithnain 22 Thu al-Qi`dah 1425 7:04 pm, Yousef Raffah wrote:
>  > > I have read on different web sites including the Arabic LyX HowTo on
>  > > the documentation page about ArabTex, now is it required to have it in
>  > > order for me to write documents/books or whatsoever in Arabic?
>  >
>  > Yes.
>
> But it's non free. From the arabtex.faq:
>
>   [ArabTeX] is free for scientific and strictly private, noncommercial
>   use. For commercial purposes you need a license agreement; inquire
>   at the author's address.

If this is the case, how come it's distributed with all Free GNU/Linux 
distros?! I feel as if this has changed during the project life cycle but 
they forgot to mention it ;)

From the site:
ArabTeX may be redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the LaTeX 
Project Public License distributed from CTAN archives in the directory 
macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; either version 1 of the License, or (at your 
option) any later version.


> I have absolutely NO reason to assume otherwise, but the copyright
> notice on the debian package does not mention this condition for some
> reason :-\
>
> In any case, the vrms package rocks :-)


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