Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([62.225.9.49]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.4905); Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:36:47 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g6MBaUWi006844 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:36:31 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 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 g6MBE2T8000251; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:14:02 +0200 (MET DST) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C23174.0FBFF180" 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 g6M1vJ4p006368; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:13:54 +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 4450 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:13:54 +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 g6MBDsuV009148 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:13:54 +0200 Received: from smtp.tninet.se (vir.tninet.se [195.100.94.108]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6MBD4T8000034 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:13:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [195.100.226.133] (du133-226.ppp.su-anst.tninet.se [195.100.226.133]) by vir.tninet.se (BMR ErlangTM/OTP 3.0) with ESMTP id 104170.336383.1027.0s564724vir for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:13:03 +0200 In-Reply-To: <15673.62597.185188.389384@istrati.mittelbach-online.de> References: <878z46p1yi.fsf@becket.becket.net> <200207162352.g6GNq9Ow031038@bilbo.localnet> <878z46p1yi.fsf@becket.becket.net> Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Jul 2002 11:36:47.0980 (UTC) FILETIME=[10557AC0:01C23174] X-Sender: haberg@pop.matematik.su.se (Unverified) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: User's thoughts about LPPL Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:26:40 +0100 Message-ID: A X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: User's thoughts about LPPL Thread-Index: AcIxdBCJDZlZ9om5TV2tlWE4lSO/hQ== From: "Hans Aberg" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4341 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C23174.0FBFF180 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 01:38 +0200 2002/07/21, Frank Mittelbach wrote: >have a look at Don's home page. there you find that upon his death TeX = version >number goes up to \pi and from there on all bugs are by definition = features. When Knuth dies, I figure that the copyright of TeX will be transferred = to the estate of the deceased, and it will be up to the maintainers of this estate to decide what will happen with TeX: They may decide to respect = the wishes epxressed by Knuth, or to do something else, like making TeX into = a commercial product. Those that do not like what happens with TeX at that time may decide to challenge it in court. It would be better though if one could agree on a common TeX successor = well before that. Hans Aberg ------_=_NextPart_001_01C23174.0FBFF180 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: User's thoughts about LPPL

At 01:38 +0200 2002/07/21, Frank Mittelbach = wrote:
>have a look at Don's home page. there you find = that upon his death TeX version
>number goes up to \pi and from there on all bugs = are by definition features.

When Knuth dies, I figure that the copyright of TeX = will be transferred to
the estate of the deceased, and it will be up to the = maintainers of this
estate to decide what will happen with TeX: They may = decide to respect the
wishes epxressed by Knuth, or to do something else, = like making TeX into a
commercial product. Those that do not like what = happens with TeX at that
time may decide to challenge it in court.

It would be better though if one could agree on a = common TeX successor well
before that.

  Hans Aberg

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