Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([62.225.9.49]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.4905); Tue, 2 Jul 2002 18:55:07 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g62GsPxH002366 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 18:54:26 +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 g62Gg1T8018786; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 18:42:01 +0200 (MET DST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C221E9.37F9A780" 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 g625W1FV029395; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 18:42:42 +0200 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 3233 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 18:42:42 +0200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (relay2.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.210.211]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.2/8.12.2/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id g62GggxD001779 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 18:42:42 +0200 Received: from smtp.albany.edu (mail1.csc.albany.edu [169.226.1.133]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g62GewT8018649 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 18:41:00 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from hilbert.math.albany.edu (hilbert.math.albany.edu [169.226.23.52]) by smtp.albany.edu (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g62GeqVu022132 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 12:40:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from hammond@localhost) by hilbert.math.albany.edu (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g62Gepin004492; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 12:40:51 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20020702150144.A5265@lucien.kn-bremen.de> Lines: 21 References: <15639.26375.782098.164234@istrati.mittelbach-online.de> <3D17F428.20702@toshiba.co.jp> <15640.43741.596149.994860@istrati.mittelbach-online.de> <20020625.233428.00785159.wl@gnu.org> <20020626000848.A10829@lucien.kn-bremen.de> <15641.26499.585788.284057@istrati.mittelbach-online.de> <20020702150144.A5265@lucien.kn-bremen.de> Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Jul 2002 16:55:11.0324 (UTC) FILETIME=[3A8D71C0:01C221E9] User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 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 17:40:51 +0100 Message-ID: A X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: Suggested changes to LPPL Thread-Index: AcIh6Tqt+kPJVJkQToG/M4gA8Vmj1w== From: "William F Hammond" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4237 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C221E9.37F9A780 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Martin -- Are you saying this _after_ reading Barbara Beeton's comments? BTW a number of licenses are accepted by and in use at CTAN. > > is actually already there (and he was satisfied with it). > > Fact is that the LPPL is no approved license for Sourceforge, . . . > I know your rationale for the license, but the fact that it's not > approved by theses repositories makes life at least more > complicated than needed. I think that LaTeX project needs in the matter of software components for tex, the program, and its cousins _are_ more complicated than those for ordinary programs. Note, that GNU provides a variant license for libraries than for applications. Don't we have a different type of object here? -- Bill ------_=_NextPart_001_01C221E9.37F9A780 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: Suggested changes to LPPL

Martin --

Are you saying this _after_ reading Barbara Beeton's = comments?

BTW a number of licenses are accepted by and in use at = CTAN.

> > is actually already there (and he was = satisfied with it).
>
> Fact is that the LPPL is no approved license for = Sourceforge,
. . .
> I know your rationale for the license, but the = fact that it's not
> approved by theses repositories makes life at = least more
> complicated than needed.

I think that LaTeX project needs in the matter of = software components
for tex, the program, and its cousins _are_ more = complicated than
those for ordinary programs.  Note, that GNU = provides a variant
license for libraries than for applications.  = Don't we have a
different type of object here?

          &nbs= p;            = ;            = -- Bill

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