Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([62.225.9.49]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.4905); Tue, 2 Jul 2002 17:17:09 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g62FGOxH002012 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 17:16:26 +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 g62F2mWK005004; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 17:02:49 +0200 (MET DST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C221DB.886A0880" 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 g625W1Cp029395; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 17:04:27 +0200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 3089 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 17:04:27 +0200 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 g62EsRxD001019 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 16:54:27 +0200 Received: from spmler3.mail.eds.com (spmler3.mail.eds.com [194.128.225.186]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g62EqgWK001659 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 16:52:44 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from spmlir1.mail.eds.com (spmlir1-2.mail.eds.com [205.191.69.199]) by spmler3.mail.eds.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g62EqYI19315 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 14:52:35 GMT Received: from nnse.eds.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spmlir1.mail.eds.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g62EqZU13463 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 14:52:35 GMT Received: from gbspm001.exemhub.exch.eds.com ([207.37.51.199]) by nnse.eds.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g62EqYq23639 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 15:52:34 +0100 (BST) Received: by GBSPM001 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <3CKH0THJ>; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 15:52:30 +0100 Return-Path: X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Jul 2002 15:17:09.0437 (UTC) FILETIME=[88ACB6D0:01C221DB] X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: AW: Suggested changes to LPPL Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 15:52:27 +0100 Message-ID: A<630BE70C8320D6118D240002A589ABB201CB7BB2@DERUM201> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: AW: Suggested changes to LPPL Thread-Index: AcIh24jJqvwzGqZMRlWxIjKdGcmY4Q== From: "Mittelbach, Frank" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4236 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C221DB.886A0880 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Lars wrote: >I prefer Frank's proposal of 2002/06/30 to his original, but the = wording in > > If you are not the Current Maintainer of The Program you are only = allowed to > distribute a modified file of The Program if, and only if, the > following eight conditions are met: > >seems to contain an `only' too much. fear you are right :-) >Concerning the matter of stating intent, perhaps something like the >following could be included in the preamble? possibly. some suggested addiotions/changes below > The purpose of this License is to grant The User the right to > freely obtain, use, and make derivative works based on The Program, > whilst at the same time preserving the integrety of The Program. ... integrety of The Program under its original name. > This means that derivative works created by modifying The Program > (or any part thereof) must not give the appearance of being part > of The Program. perhaps the above sentence is actually not necessary > The right to modify The Program for the purpose of ... to modify The Program under its original name for the purpose of = ... > creating a new version of The Program lies solely with the Current > Maintainer of The Program. frank ------_=_NextPart_001_01C221DB.886A0880 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable AW: Suggested changes to LPPL

Lars wrote:

>I prefer Frank's proposal of 2002/06/30 to his = original, but the wording in
>
>  If you are not the Current Maintainer of = The Program you are only allowed
to
>  distribute a modified file of The Program = if, and only if, the
>  following eight conditions are met:
>
>seems to contain an `only' too much.

fear you are right :-)

>Concerning the matter of stating intent, perhaps = something like the
>following could be included in the = preamble?

possibly. some suggested addiotions/changes = below

>  The purpose of this License is to grant The = User the right to
>  freely obtain, use, and make derivative = works based on The Program,
>  whilst at the same time preserving the = integrety of The Program.

  ... integrety of The Program under its original = name.

>  This means that derivative works created by = modifying The Program
>  (or any part thereof) must not give the = appearance of being part
>  of The Program.

perhaps the above sentence is actually not = necessary

>  The right to modify The Program for the = purpose of

  ... to modify The Program under its original = name for the purpose of ...

>  creating a new version of The Program lies = solely with the Current
>  Maintainer of The Program.

frank

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