Thomas Bushnell, BSG writes: > David Carlisle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > LaTeX is a document markup language the primary aim is to have > > portable documents. Thus anything that claims to be latex (or tex, or > > the computer modern fonts) should produce the same output. > > But you have *no* way to assure this, short of trademarking the name > "latex". > > I can write something which is radically (or minorly) deviant from > latex, but not a derivative work, and I can totally fudge up your > goal. > > Indeed, I can do two things: > > Make a derivate work of latex, which is variant, and called > "special-non-latex". > > Make a package with no derivatives of latex at all, which contains a > single symlink: 'latex -> special-non-latex'. > > Happy with that?
yes. for the kernel it is a bit tricky, but for packages under LPPL (and the majority of software which was put by their authors under LPPL) it is not a problem. the moment somebody has a document that loads your fudged package into LaTeX , LaTeX will detect that you are trying to sail under a stolen flag and that is the whole purpose. Note that there is no intention to discriminate against producing a better or even only different version of a package. the intention is to ensure the users expectation that if he/she puts a document through two LaTeX systems it will either - produce the same results - or stop and tell that some component (for example your new package derived from some other package) is not available at one site frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]