Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([62.225.9.49]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.4905); Fri, 19 Jul 2002 21:41:39 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g6JJfIWi032383 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 21:41:19 +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 g6JJUOT8002411; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 21:30:24 +0200 (MET DST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C22F5C.4CB19B80" 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 g6J9Gl83024770; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 21:31:00 +0200 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 5064 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 21:31:00 +0200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 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 g6JJUuuV028586 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 21:30:56 +0200 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.171]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6JJTxWK006147 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 21:29:59 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [212.227.126.155] (helo=mrelayng1.kundenserver.de) by moutng1.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #2) id 17VdRv-0002zn-00 for LATEX-L@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 21:29:59 +0200 Received: from [80.129.5.225] (helo=istrati.mittelbach-online.de) by mrelayng1.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #2) id 17VdRm-0001F0-00 for LATEX-L@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 21:29:59 +0200 Received: (from frank@localhost) by istrati.mittelbach-online.de (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id g6JJSwp15459; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 21:28:58 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20020719131105.C9871@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> References: <15671.59093.569797.181271@istrati.mittelbach-online.de> <20020719131105.C9871@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> Return-Path: X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under Emacs 20.7.1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Jul 2002 19:41:43.0162 (UTC) FILETIME=[4F2CADA0:01C22F5C] X-Authentication-Warning: istrati.mittelbach-online.de: frank set sender to frank@mittelbach-online.de using -f X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: Question(s) for clarifications with respect to the LPPL discussion Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 20:28:58 +0100 Message-ID: A<15672.26746.746986.360717@istrati.mittelbach-online.de> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: Question(s) for clarifications with respect to the LPPL discussion Thread-Index: AcIvXE9i9inWMIlzTBW7dZML+CJM4w== From: "Frank Mittelbach" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4333 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C22F5C.4CB19B80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Timothy, > You seem to me to have been quite remarkably courteous, rational and = patient > in all your postings. > If anyone in the world could bridge what seems to me an unbridgeable = gap > it must be you. well thanks :-) we'll see (though not if i do another week or tw with = less than 4 hours sleep per night > But David Carlisle raised one point which you don't seem to have = taken into account. > He suggested (if I understood him correctly) > that modifying the LaTeX licence to make it "Debian-free" > would in fact adversely affect publishers and others presently using = LaTeX. rest assured, you are mistaken. he was speaking of the case to use an = existing debian-free license like GPL for latex. frank ------_=_NextPart_001_01C22F5C.4CB19B80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: Question(s) for clarifications with respect to the LPPL = discussion

Timothy,

 > You seem to me to have been quite = remarkably courteous, rational and patient
 > in all your postings.
 > If anyone in the world could bridge what = seems to me an unbridgeable gap
 > it must be you.

well thanks :-) we'll see (though not if i do another = week or tw with less
than 4 hours sleep per night

 > But David Carlisle raised one point which = you don't seem to have taken into account.
 > He suggested (if I understood him = correctly)
 > that modifying the LaTeX licence to make = it "Debian-free"
 > would in fact adversely affect publishers = and others presently using LaTeX.

rest assured, you are mistaken. he was speaking of the = case to use an existing
debian-free license like GPL for latex.

frank

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