On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 18:34, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 06:09:38PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > It's not so hard to imagine a similar situation outside of TeX-world. > > To quote a recently seen example: > > > > nautilus -> libgnomevfs0 > > > > If you rebuild libgnomevfs0 and link it to OpenSSL, then you change the > > license status of nautilus. Think libgnomevfs0 as "A" and nautilus as > > "B". > > That's due to changes in license relationships, though, not due to > features being added or removed. I can still make whatever feature > changes I want to OpenSSL without changing the freeness of libgnomevfs0 > or nautilus.
Right. But you can't add a certain feature (namely, OpenSSL support) to libgnomevfs0 without making nautilus non-distributable. The relevant difference here is that you're removing a feature from LaTeX which changes its free status. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
