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proposed alternative license (was Re: LaTeX PublicProject License, Version 1.3 (DRAFT)) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 20:54:10 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: From: "Will Newton" To: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_003_01C22C39.8707F980 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 15 Jul 2002 8:42 pm, Frank Mittelbach wrote: > Instead it is the wish to give preserve for LaTeX users one of the = most > fundamental features of TeX and LaTeX: the reliability that a document > produces identical results at different sites thus allowing LaTeX to = be > used as an exchange media in collaborations, when preparing camera = ready > copy, etc. No amount of license changes will prevent site administrators making = their=20 own changes to their LaTeX installation, and I would hope major = distributors=20 would have enough respect for their users and the LaTeX community not to = make=20 such a gratuitous change in any case. No, I do not believe this is a = good=20 argument for making a package unfree. --=20 To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact = listmaster@lists.debian.org ------_=_NextPart_003_01C22C39.8707F980 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: Motivations; proposed alternative license (was Re: LaTeX = PublicProject License, Version 1.3 (DRAFT))

On Monday 15 Jul 2002 8:42 pm, Frank Mittelbach = wrote:

> Instead it is the wish to give preserve for LaTeX = users one of the most
> fundamental features of TeX and LaTeX: the = reliability that a document
> produces identical results at different sites = thus allowing LaTeX to be
> used as an exchange media in collaborations, = when preparing camera ready
> copy, etc.

No amount of license changes will prevent site = administrators making their
own changes to their LaTeX installation, and I would = hope major distributors
would have enough respect for their users and the = LaTeX community not to make
such a gratuitous change in any case. No, I do not = believe this is a good
argument for making a package unfree.


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