Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([62.225.9.49]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.4905); Tue, 2 Jul 2002 09:47:53 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g627lXxC031894 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 09:47:34 +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 g627VPWK004821; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 09:31:26 +0200 (MET DST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C2219C.C562DA80" 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 g625W10f029395; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 09:31:42 +0200 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 2389 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 09:31:41 +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 g627VfxD029901 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 09:31:41 +0200 Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with SMTP id g627U0WK004441 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 09:30:00 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 1527 invoked by uid 0); 2 Jul 2002 07:29:54 -0000 Received: from a1e54.pppool.de (HELO mungojerrie.local) (213.6.30.84) by mail.gmx.net (mp015-rz3) with SMTP; 2 Jul 2002 07:29:54 -0000 Received: from mungojerrie (mungojerrie.local [192.168.1.2]) by mungojerrie.local (8.12.3/8.12.3/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id g6273B42004235 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 09:03:11 +0200 In-Reply-To: <15648.50391.890690.544946@istrati.mittelbach-online.de> Organization: KOMA References: <3.0.6.32.20020621144417.007b3100@mail.uark.edu> <200207012144.16831@KOMA> <15648.50391.890690.544946@istrati.mittelbach-online.de> Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Jul 2002 07:47:53.0241 (UTC) FILETIME=[C587A090:01C2219C] User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 x-mime-autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de id g627VfxD029902 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavis-milter (http://amavis.org/) 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: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 08:03:10 +0100 Message-ID: A<200207020903.10740@KOMA> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: Suggested changes to LPPL Thread-Index: AcIhnMW749CMMBTlTu6g30hvZEpOiw== From: "Markus Kohm" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4234 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C2219C.C562DA80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am Montag, 1. Juli 2002 23:08 hast du geschrieben: > just look at the many packages around on ctan with copyright notices = of > some sort (prior to lppl) that are "authorless" by now. Don't think about packages prior to lppl because the problem will stay = there even after changing lppl. Current lppl already gives a chance to friendly overtake an unsupported package: rename it. They main problem may be the organization. If e.g. a package at CTAN would be moved from /supported/foo to /other/foo or even /obsolete/foo and a file would be created /supported/foo/see_newfoo this = may be an improvement. BTW: I really know the problem of "how to find the author and what to do = after not finding him" because I've had it when I started with KOMA-Script in = 1994. Gru=DF Markus ------_=_NextPart_001_01C2219C.C562DA80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: Suggested changes to LPPL

Am Montag, 1. Juli 2002 23:08 hast du = geschrieben:
> just look at the many packages around on ctan = with copyright notices of
> some sort (prior to lppl) that are = "authorless" by now.

Don't think about packages prior to lppl because the = problem will stay there
even after changing lppl.

Current lppl already gives a chance to friendly = overtake an unsupported
package: rename it. They main problem may be the = organization. If e.g. a
package at CTAN would be moved from /supported/foo to = /other/foo or even
/obsolete/foo and a file would be created = /supported/foo/see_newfoo this may
be an improvement.

BTW: I really know the problem of "how to find = the author and what to do after
not finding him" because I've had it when I = started with KOMA-Script in 1994.

Gru=DF
Markus

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