Walter Landry writes: > Actually, this is a good reason for someone to use the standard > facility, not for the license to require the standard facility. All > that you really care about is that the information gets to the user, > not how it gets to them.
yes and no. we care that the information gets to the user but we also care that it gets to the user in an "expected" way. I grant you that there might be more freedom than requiring a certain facility to be used. but what we do not accept, for example, is the idea that the user has to manually look through source files to find individual comments that may be hidden anywhere in literally several thousand files. you may have read or listen to Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy: there is this nice scene near the beginning in which the earth men are told that it is their fault not to have looked on Alpha Centaurus where the plans have been on display for the last 50 years --- we are strongly opposed to a solution that could result in something similar for LaTeX. And we don't like to have to fight over "X is visible/non-visible enough for the user" and therefore want some clear ground rules (restricted to the use in a specified context). frank
