Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([62.225.9.49]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.4905); Fri, 12 Jul 2002 01:32:31 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g6BNW0Wi006175 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 01:32:01 +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 g6BNAFT8010587; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 01:10:15 +0200 (MET DST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C22933.39D31180" 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 g6BM04t6007271; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 01:11:05 +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 4017 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 01:11:05 +0200 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 g6BNB5rU007681 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 01:11:05 +0200 Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (mmdf@salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with SMTP id g6BN9oT8010571 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 01:09:50 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from somewhere by salmon.maths.tcd.ie via UUCP id ; 12 Jul 2002 00:09:49 +0100 (BST) Received: (from tim@localhost) by alfred.murphy.ie (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g6BMm0405142; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 23:48:00 +0100 In-Reply-To: <15661.43749.754282.755328@istrati.mittelbach-online.de>; from frank.mittelbach@LATEX-PROJECT.ORG on Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 05:57:25PM +0200 References: <20020711110844.D2564@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> <15661.30439.544921.405874@na.uni-tuebingen.de> <15661.43749.754282.755328@istrati.mittelbach-online.de> Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Jul 2002 23:32:31.0547 (UTC) FILETIME=[3A2688B0:01C22933] 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: Re: LPPL under review at savannah.gnu.org Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 23:48:00 +0100 Message-ID: A<20020711234800.A5139@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: LPPL under review at savannah.gnu.org Thread-Index: AcIpMzo9UFq931mgTD2SVWPO3oWuHA== From: "Timothy Murphy" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4286 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C22933.39D31180 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 05:57:25PM +0200, Frank Mittelbach wrote: > I forward here a reply to Marcel's post from David Carlisle, who for = some > reason got rejected by the listserv ... > It is quite likely that some uses of latex by commercial organisations > would be in contravention of GPL. Whether or not you view such uses as > "good" the fact is that it is hardly reasonable to pull the plug on > activities that have been legal (and actively supported) for the last = 17 > years or so. Dear Frank, I'm afraid I haven't found your arguments very convincing, but I find the above argument unanswerable, and so withdraw from the fray. Tim -- 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_01C22933.39D31180 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: LPPL under review at savannah.gnu.org

On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 05:57:25PM +0200, Frank = Mittelbach wrote:
> I forward here a reply to Marcel's post from = David Carlisle, who for some
> reason got rejected by the listserv
...
> It is quite likely that some uses of latex by = commercial organisations
> would be in contravention of GPL. Whether or not = you view such uses as
> "good" the fact is that it is hardly = reasonable to pull the plug on
> activities that have been legal (and actively = supported) for the last 17
> years or so.

Dear Frank,

I'm afraid I haven't found your arguments very = convincing,
but I find the above argument unanswerable,
and so withdraw from the fray.

Tim

--
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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