Re: [Groff] mm directory placement

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Why is mm kept in the contrib "exile"?  In Debian, "contrib" means
> unfree to a certain degree, so is there a problem with the mm
> license?

Not at all.

> When I mailed the author Joergen Haegg <address@hidden> he replied:
> > I don't know, the license is supposed to be compatible.
> > (I wondered about it myself.)
> > Though the groff maintainers may have other ideas, feel free to
> > ask them.

Maybe my decision was a bit unfortunate (and if you prefer, Jörgen, I
can move the files back to tmac/mm).

The reason for putting the mm files into contrib/mm was done in the
hope that probably other people will start to populate the contrib dir
with other macro packages.  Compare this to

  <CTAN>/pub/tex/macros/latex/base/...
  <CTAN>/pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/...

Whether this hope will be fulfilled, I don't know...

It has no other meaning than it is contributed software, written and
maintained by a person not identical with the groff team.


    Werner