Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([62.225.9.49]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.4905); Wed, 26 Jun 2002 02:23:56 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g5Q0NSxC003977 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 02:23:29 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g5Q0CFWK023930; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 02:12:15 +0200 (MET DST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C21CA7.C204B600" Received: from listserv (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.2/8.12.2/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id g5PM02bS012637; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 02:14:11 +0200 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 2255 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 02:14:11 +0200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.2/8.12.2/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id g5Q0EAaE013335 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 02:14:10 +0200 Received: from mutant.triumf.ca (mutant.Triumf.CA [142.90.112.22]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g5Q0CBWK023923 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 02:12:12 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from asnd@localhost) by mutant.triumf.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA15469; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 17:18:46 -0700 In-Reply-To: Frank Mittelbach's message of "Tue, 25 Jun 2002 19:39:41 +0200" Lines: 13 Organization: TRIUMF: Canada's national meson facility References: <3.0.6.32.20020621144417.007b3100@mail.uark.edu> <15639.26375.782098.164234@istrati.mittelbach-online.de> <3D17F428.20702@toshiba.co.jp> <15640.43741.596149.994860@istrati.mittelbach-online.de> Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Jun 2002 00:23:56.0521 (UTC) FILETIME=[C2543590:01C21CA7] User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 X-Authentication-Warning: mutant.triumf.ca: asnd set sender to asnd@triumf.ca using -f X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: Suggested changes to LPPL Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 01:18:46 +0100 Message-ID: A X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: Suggested changes to LPPL Thread-Index: AcIcp8JrBCIHaTTpQTu7fA8kBaj5Lg== From: "Donald Arseneau" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4212 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C21CA7.C204B600 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Frank Mittelbach writes: > The LaTeX Project Public License is now in existence for some time and = within > the TeX community widely accepted (or so is my impression), given the = fact > that most packages these days are distributed under this license. I have another problem with the use of LPPL for contributed packages: it has no provision for the author/supporter "disappearing" from LaLa LaTeX land, and prevents anybody from adopting support in perpetuity. This is not really a problem for the LaTeX core distribution. Donald Arseneau asnd@triumf.ca ------_=_NextPart_001_01C21CA7.C204B600 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: Suggested changes to LPPL

Frank Mittelbach = <frank.mittelbach@LATEX-PROJECT.ORG> writes:

> The LaTeX Project Public License is now in = existence for some time and within
> the TeX community widely accepted (or so is my = impression), given the fact
> that most packages these days are distributed = under this license.

I have another problem with the use of LPPL for = contributed packages:
it has no provision for the author/supporter = "disappearing" from LaLa
LaTeX land, and prevents anybody from adopting = support in perpetuity.
This is not really a problem for the LaTeX core = distribution.


Donald = Arseneau           = ;            =    asnd@triumf.ca

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