Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([62.225.9.49]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.4905); Thu, 4 Jul 2002 19:36:44 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g64Ha4xH012255 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 19:36:05 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C22381.5D211E00" 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 g64HP5WK021385; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 19:25:05 +0200 (MET DST) 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 g640k4Fn011125; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 19:26:32 +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 4683 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 19:26:32 +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 g64HQWxD017981 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 19:26:32 +0200 Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (mmdf@salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with SMTP id g64HOrWK021353 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 19:24:57 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from somewhere by salmon.maths.tcd.ie via UUCP id ; 4 Jul 2002 18:24:51 +0100 (BST) Received: (from tim@localhost) by alfred.murphy.ie (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g64HOaT02239 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 18:24:36 +0100 Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Jul 2002 17:36:44.0688 (UTC) FILETIME=[5D8A1900:01C22381] User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: LPPL Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 18:24:36 +0100 Message-ID: A<20020704182436.A2236@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: LPPL Thread-Index: AcIjgV2nfL+IIAufQ4mKez4Ko6tk5Q== From: "Timothy Murphy" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4253 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C22381.5D211E00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable May a voice from the back of the hall ask why LaTeX doesn't adopt the Gnu GPL? Then we could call it Gnu-LaTeX or perhaps GLaTeX. And TUG could become GLUG, the Gnu-LaTeX users group. I may say I have never read the GPL or the LPPL, and would regard it as a fairly serious punishment to have to do so. (A Russian friend of mine who was incarcerated in China during the Cultural Revolution was not allowed to read anything except the works of Mao for two years. Perhaps the new rulers of China would restrict his reading to software licences.) Wittgenstein was asked what he liked to eat and he replied that he did not really mind as long as it was always the same; and I would feel much the same about licences. Apologies for injecting an improper air of levity into what is undoubtedly a serious matter. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: 086-233 6090 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ------_=_NextPart_001_01C22381.5D211E00 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable LPPL

May a voice from the back of the hall
ask why LaTeX doesn't adopt the Gnu GPL?
Then we could call it Gnu-LaTeX or perhaps = GLaTeX.
And TUG could become GLUG, the Gnu-LaTeX users = group.

I may say I have never read the GPL or the = LPPL,
and would regard it as a fairly serious = punishment
to have to do so.
(A Russian friend of mine who was incarcerated in = China
during the Cultural Revolution
was not allowed to read anything except the works of = Mao
for two years.
Perhaps the new rulers of China would restrict his = reading
to software licences.)

Wittgenstein was asked what he liked to eat
and he replied that he did not really mind
as long as it was always the same;
and I would feel much the same about licences.

Apologies for injecting an improper air of = levity
into what is undoubtedly a serious matter.



--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
tel: 086-233 6090
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, = Dublin 2, Ireland

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