Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([62.225.9.49]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.4905); Mon, 1 Jul 2002 12:34:54 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g61AYXxC027677 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 12:34:34 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g61ANYT8019318; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 12:23:34 +0200 (MET DST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C220EA.EFF45B00" 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 g615Cg6T021959; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 12:23:40 +0200 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 2735 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 12:23:40 +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 g61ANexD024314 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 12:23:40 +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 g61ALtWK001152 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 12:21:56 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from asnd@localhost) by mutant.triumf.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA03331; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 03:27:01 -0700 In-Reply-To: Hans Aberg's message of "Mon, 1 Jul 2002 01:26:18 +0200" Lines: 18 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> <15641.26504.20435.649672@istrati.mittelbach-online.de> Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Jul 2002 10:34:55.0317 (UTC) FILETIME=[F0BD5050:01C220EA] 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: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:27:01 +0100 Message-ID: A X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: Suggested changes to LPPL Thread-Index: AcIg6vEI5PANj8xRRlaYJQtk8tFiAA== From: "Donald Arseneau" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4225 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C220EA.EFF45B00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hans Aberg writes: > copyright holder has the right to indicate who is maintaining some = stuff > (i.e., a maintainer cannot transfer the maintaining to somebody else). > > Also, I think that in order for a person to give up their legal = rights, > this person would normally have to make an active consent of that. So = your > idea that if the maintainer cannot be contacted, somebody else would = be > able by that to seize the initiative to become maintainer, may not be = legal. You are correct about consent, so the point is to put the consent into the standard license text, so the copyright holder can give consent by selecting the license. Donald Arseneau asnd@triumf.ca ------_=_NextPart_001_01C220EA.EFF45B00 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: Suggested changes to LPPL

Hans Aberg <haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE> = writes:

> copyright holder has the right to indicate who is = maintaining some stuff
> (i.e., a maintainer cannot transfer the = maintaining to somebody else).
>
> Also, I think that in order for a person to give = up their legal rights,
> this person would normally have to make an = active consent of that. So your
> idea that if the maintainer cannot be contacted, = somebody else would be
> able by that to seize the initiative to become = maintainer, may not be legal.

You are correct about consent, so the point is to put = the consent
into the standard license text, so the copyright = holder can give
consent by selecting the license.

Donald = Arseneau           = ;            =    asnd@triumf.ca

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