Re: Motivations; proposed alternative license (was Re: LaTeX PublicProject License, Version 1.3 (DRAFT))

2002-07-16 Thread William F Hammond
or whatever is appropriate) for the benefit of > > LaTeX as a freely extensible and changeable system for exchange of > > information it is not. > > I hope you'll agree with me that this statement is a subjective > analysis. Isn't it rather a rather practica

DFSG, the LaTeX Project and its works (Was: none)

2002-07-19 Thread William F Hammond
- This was posted on July 17 to LATEX-L, but the copy for debian-legal was misaddressed. - Perhaps it just comes down to nuances of language. David Carlisle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes to LATEX-L: > 4) In practice, Debian recognizes "a different name or version number" >to refer *work

Re: LaTeX & DFSG

2002-07-20 Thread William F Hammond
--- Note to LATEX-L readers: it does indeed seem that Frank and David are making progress in a reasonable negotiation at debian-legal towards a reconciliation of LPPL and the Debian Free Software Guidelines. --- There is something I do not understand: Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who seems

Re: LaTeX & DFSG

2002-07-21 Thread William F Hammond
Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't follow the allusion to cascading change requirements. > > > > Could someone pose a simple example? Or was the cascade a nightmare? > > OK, here's what I was thinking. > > Let's imagine something like LaTeX licensed under something like the >

Re: Towards a new LPPL draft

2002-07-23 Thread William F Hammond
More nuances of language. Frank Mittelbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes to debian-legal: > that you produce sniffenlatex which has its own complete tree and in > there has identical file names to the pristine LaTeX tree so that both > trees live side by side. For new LPPL language it might make se