Re: gnuplot license

2002-12-17 Thread Boris Veytsman
Sorry for replying to myself, but the following from the FAQ: Gnuplot is freeware in the sense that you don't have to pay for it. However it is not freeware in the sense that you would be allowed to distribute a modified version of your gnuplot freely. Please read and accept

Re: TeX Licenses teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)

2002-08-10 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) Date: 09 Aug 2002 19:07:26 -0700 In fact, everyone does, in fact, modify TeX before installing it. Nobody, in fact, installs an unmodified TeX. This is a central fact massively ignored by so many that I have to say it in each post, rather

Re: TeX Licenses teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)

2002-08-10 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 14:54:19 +0300 From: Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you talking about a compilation copyright here? Those are tricky beasts. I've never before seen a compilation copyright with a license that allows modification, and I wonder how it would work. Excuse

Re: TeX Licenses teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)

2002-08-09 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 16:15:01 +0200 From: Frank Mittelbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frank, thanks for a very lucid and thoughtful comment. It is very helpful. I must say, however, that I somewhat disagree with one of your points, namely: Thus our point is that building a distribution consisting

Re: TeX Licenses teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)

2002-08-09 Thread Boris Veytsman
First, three quotations: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) Date: 09 Aug 2002 19:01:06 -0700 This is a massively inconsistent sentence. But there is one and only one way to make it consistent. The files are in the public domain--fully, completely--and the rest of the

Re: TeX Licenses teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)

2002-08-08 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) Date: 07 Aug 2002 22:48:36 -0700 Boris Veytsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now it seems that Thomas does not agree with this understanding and says that I do not interpret DFSG correctly. It may be so. I am a Debian *user*, not a Debian

Re: TeX Licenses teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)

2002-08-08 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 02:05:04 -0400 From: Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Completely new systems based on TeX code? Huh? Glenn, if you do not know about such systems, this does not mean that they do not exist, right? Boris, if it's based on TeX code, it's not a completely new

Re: TeX Licenses teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)

2002-08-08 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 20:26:26 +0200 From: Bernhard R. Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will try to describe some worst-case scenario, to describe, what it is [the scenario is omitted]. You would be surprised, but this scenario is *not* imaginary. Actually this is what really happened to me. I

Re: TeX Licenses teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)

2002-08-08 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) Date: 08 Aug 2002 12:52:47 -0700 No. I want to say: Knuth wanted to make TeX free, and he did. And the LaTeX people want a *different* license from the TeX license--indeed, they want one that is quite possibly non-free. Because the LaTeX

Re: TeX Licenses teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)

2002-08-08 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 21:58:40 +0200 From: Bernhard R. Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] A lunatic author can make it impossible to get a stable system, most of the time even changes will not help to get a system which is also feasable to be used with interchanged documents from and to new and old

Re: TeX Licenses teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)

2002-08-08 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:21:10 -0400 From: Simon Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] My goodness! Here's where all our experiences with dynamic libraries pay off. Do you remember how glibc team broke the compatibility between MINOR versions? It was a jolly sight For the love of all

Re: TeX Licenses teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)

2002-08-08 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) Date: 08 Aug 2002 14:01:29 -0700 The CM fonts prohibit *all* modification--whether with changed names or not--AFAICT. That makes them completely nonfree. It has nothing to do with TeX, but with the CM fonts license. This statement is not

Re: TeX Licenses teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)

2002-08-08 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 17:22:14 -0400 From: Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] I doubt it's that. I think it more likely that Thomas is arguing against your insistence that TeX be removed wholly from Debian by explaining his interpretation of the issues. In his interpretation, TeX is

Re: TeX Licenses teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)

2002-08-07 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 22:40:14 +0100 From: Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] =20 I am afraid you cannot do this: since TeX is trademarked, you cannot substitute a new font for it without violating trademark.=20 So the package name gets changed, and a couple lines gets added to the

Re: TeX Licenses teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)

2002-08-07 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 17:43:37 -0400 From: Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 10:40:14PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: So the package name gets changed, and a couple lines gets added to the description. Boo hoo. Trivial and irrelevant. Which has been done,

Re: TeX Licenses teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)

2002-08-06 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 21:41:45 -0500 From: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, as you noted, the TM (trademark) isn't Knuth's. The trademarks belong to the AMS and Addison-Wesley. (Though I would hope they have taken the time to consult with Knuth so as to not enforce the trademarks

Re: TeX Licenses teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)

2002-08-06 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) Date: 05 Aug 2002 19:46:09 -0700 You cannot modify tex.web at all, but you are free to patch it with what you want and distribute the results, including binaries made from it. This is exactly the sort of thing that DFSG 4 had in mind,

Re: TeX Licenses teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)

2002-08-06 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 23:09:17 +0100 From: Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since it is almost certainly not possible to trademark a filename anyway, the solution seems fairly clear. We find a free font to replace this one with, and we drop it in place as cmr10.mf, excising the old

Re: TeX Licenses teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)

2002-08-06 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 21:16:08 -0500 From: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you asking Debian to regard the following license as DFSG-free? Copyright 1996-2002 Software in the Public Interest, Inc. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person

Re: TeX Licenses teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)

2002-08-06 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) Date: 06 Aug 2002 13:54:08 -0700 Can you modify plain.tex? Yes, if I do so by patches. I can do the following: Rename plain.tex to origplain.tex. Create a new plain.tex that loads origplain.tex and then hacks the environment as I

Re: TeX Licenses teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)

2002-08-05 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 01:54:02 -0500 From: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] These statements are in tension. If Professor Knuth asserts the latter, he logically *cannot* be asserting the former. Knuth is asserting his copyright to impose the restrictions described above; therefore

Re: TeX Licenses teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)

2002-08-05 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 11:05:28 -0500 From: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] You have an unhealthy obsession with filenames. A filename is no more Who is trying to be offensive now? Branden, cannot we make this a civil discussion, even given the fact we disagree? Believe me, I've led enough

Re: TeX Licenses teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)

2002-08-05 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 19:52:28 +0200 From: Frank Mittelbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] that remark with the historical context is not clear to me as the names for the collective works have been trademarked (Computer Modern not i think) http://www.yandy.com/cm.htm says: (TM) Computer Modern is a

Re: TeX Licenses teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)

2002-08-05 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 14:07:45 -0500 From: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is *human* confusion that Knuth has sought to avoid, not confusion on the part of computers. Strictly speaking, computers don't get confused. They do what they're told, or throw an exception. [...] In

Re: TeX Licenses teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)

2002-08-05 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) Date: 05 Aug 2002 13:01:07 -0700 Now, you treat this is as if there are merely differing interpretations of DFSG-4. But there are not. The only interpretors of DFSG-4 are the Debian Project. Nobody else. We don't make any kind of promise

Re: TeX Licenses teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)

2002-08-05 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) Date: 05 Aug 2002 13:45:17 -0700 You can't change tex.web, but you can do *anything* you like to it, as long as you do so via patch files. And in Knuth's wacked out language (WEB), he even has a decent automatic patch file mechanism *built

Re: Checksums (was: Encoding the name in the file contents)

2002-07-26 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:01:40 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Martin_Schr=F6der?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2002-07-25 16:46:57 -0700, Walter Landry wrote: Um, no. In the case where package FOO needs package BAR, \NeedsTeXFormat has BAR tell FOO that BAR is a good version. Using It can tell

Re: Concluding the LPPL debate, try 2

2002-07-26 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 26 Jul 2002 12:20:43 +0200 Erm .. the *current* LPPL you say, being LPPL version 1.2? I cannot find any language in there that allows naming outside of the LaTeX search path. There seems to be no exceptions to condition (3) about not

Re: Suggestion for dual-licensed LaTeX (was Re: Encoding the name in the file contents (was Re: Towards a new LPPL draft))

2002-07-26 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 26 Jul 2002 13:15:44 +0200 Scripsit Boris Veytsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you create non-LaTeX, you can move files outside the tree, and then you are completely free to do whatever you want. Please substantiate this claim with quotes from

Re: Towards a new LPPL draft

2002-07-26 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 19:07:06 +0100 From: David Carlisle [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you make a program that isn't called tex, are you saying you can edit plain.tex and call the modified file plain.tex without being in contravention of the comment at the top of plain.tex which says % And

Re: Encoding the name in the file contents (was Re: Towards a new LPPL draft)

2002-07-25 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) Date: 24 Jul 2002 22:44:16 -0700 See, we have a different model of evolution--one much much much longer term. Our model is one that should not rely on any assumption that *anything* will be static, because of a desire to think *long* term.

Re: Suggestion for dual-licensed LaTeX (was Re: Encoding the name in the file contents (was Re: Towards a new LPPL draft))

2002-07-25 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:34:50 -0400 I'd like to suggest a licensing variant for LaTeX which uses a weakened form of the API restrictions discussed earlier. In its simplest form, this requires distribution of two versions of LaTeX. One is under a

Re: Suggestion for dual-licensed LaTeX (was Re: Encoding the name in the file contents (was Re: Towards a new LPPL draft))

2002-07-25 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 13:39:49 -0400 1. Your proposition should include not only LaTeX but also TeX since its licensing terms are essentially the same. The terms of the copy of TeX on my computer appear to be rather different: it's public

Re: Concluding the LPPL debate, try 2

2002-07-25 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 25 Jul 2002 23:36:22 +0200 I can't imagine that it would be acceptable for the LaTeX people that a change in the LaTeX *kernel* would make it legal to hack in another file that, from their point of wiev, is part of an entirely different,

Re: Suggestion for dual-licensed LaTeX (was Re: Encoding the name in the file contents (was Re: Towards a new LPPL draft))

2002-07-25 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 17:52:16 -0400 2. You can do whatever you want with TeX code as long as it is not called TeX. Yes. But it requires renaming the *work*, not each individual file. Some of the files, of course, carry more stringent terms.

Re: Encoding the name in the file contents (was Re: Towards a new LPPL draft)

2002-07-24 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 20:31:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Rafn [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 21:17, Alexander Cherepanov wrote: The question here is how to guarantee that a changed overcite.sty (without renaming) will not be used with pristine LaTeX, right? This is insanity.

Re: Encoding the name in the file contents

2002-07-24 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:56:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] So let me get this straight. Pristine LaTeX would have, within it, a mechanism for checking whether a particular file is blessed by the LaTeX project. Ideally, it could check digital signatures. md5sums

Re: Encoding the name in the file contents

2002-07-24 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 22:53:23 +0200 From: Frank Mittelbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] So it is NOT me or David or anybody else from The LaTeX Team that controls an this: the terms of LPPL control it as any work under LPPL will be on a LaTeX system (but not on a fork on) load the sameset of macros

Re: Encoding the name in the file contents (was Re: Towards a new LPPL draft)

2002-07-24 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 13:20:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Rafn [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Boris Veytsman wrote: Perhaps because LaTeX people want to give other people (basically themselves) a couple of other rights, namely: 1. The right to use fragments, ideas or algorithms

Re: Encoding the name in the file contents

2002-07-24 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 14:58:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boris Veytsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hate to disappoint you, but this is much more work than you think. LaTeX is not a Linux project. It is not even a Unix or Posix project. It is a thing which

Re: Encoding the name in the file contents (was Re: Towards a new LPPL draft)

2002-07-24 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:42:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Rafn [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, it's true of C as well. We wouldn't accept a Perl, for instance, that forbade incompatible changes to the API, even if it allowed addition of keywords. It really is the case that we want to preserve the

Re: Encoding the name in the file contents (was Re: Towards a new LPPL draft)

2002-07-24 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:42:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Rafn [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, it's true of C as well. We wouldn't accept a Perl, for instance, that forbade incompatible changes to the API, even if it allowed addition of keywords. It really is the case that we want to preserve the

Re: Towards a new LPPL draft

2002-07-23 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: Jeff Licquia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 23 Jul 2002 10:31:57 -0500 Would it work for you to require the following? - if the whole is named LaTeX, every changed file must be renamed - if the whole is named something else, files may be changed without renaming What about files

Re: defining distribution (Re: A few more LPPL concerns)

2002-07-22 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: Jeff Licquia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 21 Jul 2002 22:59:26 -0500 It's crucial to your point, therefore, that there not be a distinction between running the program from /usr/local/bin or /afs/whatever/bin. I think we've shown that this isn't the case, since a sysadmin does not need

Re: A few more LPPL concerns

2002-07-22 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 16:35:42 +1200 From: Nick Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take my company. There are 4 of us working there. I'm quite likely to want to make a small modification to some part of LaTeX to make it behave how I want it to. It's been a long time since I used LaTeX heavily, so

Re: A few more LPPL concerns

2002-07-22 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: Jeff Licquia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22 Jul 2002 00:23:22 -0500 On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 23:43, Boris Veytsman wrote: From: Nick Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take my company. There are 4 of us working there. I'm quite likely to want to make a small modification to some part

Re: defining distribution (Re: A few more LPPL concerns)

2002-07-22 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: Jeff Licquia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22 Jul 2002 00:47:39 -0500 On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 23:10, Boris Veytsman wrote: Exactly. I really do not see the difference between running a program from /usr/local/bin or /afs/whatever/bin/. What is the difference between AFS and NFS besides

Re: User's thoughts about LPPL

2002-07-22 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) Date: 22 Jul 2002 02:27:04 -0700 David Carlisle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Prior to the latex2e licence (which from which LPPL was derived) latex could be (and often was) locally modified and re-distributed. It got so bad by around 1990

Re: A few more LPPL concerns

2002-07-22 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) Date: 22 Jul 2002 02:28:38 -0700 I think that ultimately it is the University and its users who are best place to make that decision, and not the LaTeX mafia. I think that LaTeX users community is pretty happy with the way the things are.

Re: Towards a new LPPL draft

2002-07-22 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:31:54 +0200 From: Frank Mittelbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] To go forward I propose A) I would like you to come to a conclusion on (1) assuming the above Axiom The question is, who should say yes and no? Sorry for being ignorant about the rules -- but is there a

Re: User's thoughts about LPPL

2002-07-22 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: Jeff Licquia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22 Jul 2002 15:02:28 -0500 Would it really contradict your professed goals to have three LaTeX-alike systems floating around, one named LaTeX, one named FooTeX, and one named BarTeX? Of course not. Actually there are several systems floating

Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia

2002-07-21 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 20 Jul 2002 20:15:30 +0200 - to fork you have to rename every package under LPPL all of them wrong (and explained over and over again by now) It has been *asserted* over and over again that this is wrong, but that assertation does not

Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia

2002-07-21 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 20 Jul 2002 23:32:48 +0200 I still think it can be viewed as excessive. Let me explain. Imagine that I want to create a typesetting system that behaves just like LaTeX on all input files, except that input files that say something like

Re: A few more LPPL concerns

2002-07-21 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 13:30:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Rafn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note that in the above, `distribution' of a file means making the file available to others by any means. This includes, for instance, installing the file on any machine in such a way that the file is

Re: defining distribution (Re: A few more LPPL concerns)

2002-07-21 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 14:32:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Rafn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suppose I take a GPL'ed program, change it and put the closed version (sans sources) on my own machine. I did not violate GPL yet. Now suppose that I make the drive NFS-exportable and encourage my paying

Re: defining distribution (Re: A few more LPPL concerns)

2002-07-21 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: Jeff Licquia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 21 Jul 2002 18:07:50 -0500 On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 16:49, Boris Veytsman wrote: This is the root of our disagreement. I think that a sysadmin that put a changed copy of latex.fmt in the $TEXFORMATS directory to be used by his users

Re: defining distribution (Re: A few more LPPL concerns)

2002-07-21 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: Jeff Licquia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 21 Jul 2002 20:34:32 -0500 You're right, and there may be software you can't install on your AFS drive in this instance, because you're distributing software to those thousand computers. This is irrespective of whether any of those thousand

Re: User's thoughts about LPPL

2002-07-19 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:12:44 -0400 From: Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 12:55:43PM +0200, Javier Bezos wrote: but the documents created using that distribution. If I get a document by John Smith (somehow), how can I see if _his_ system had a modified

Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia

2002-07-19 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 20:16:43 +0200 From: Bernhard R. Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think noone wants to change the (La)TeX-Kernel, noone want do make .tex-file iterchange impossible. We all want the LaTeX to be the usefull crossplattform tool that it is. But though we do not want to do

Re: LaTeX DFSG

2002-07-19 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 13:21:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Rafn [EMAIL PROTECTED] R2. Change the appearance of all documents by (1) using instead of the command latex file a command modified-latex file or (2) passing the corresponding options to tex or (3) using my own version

Re: LaTeX DFSG

2002-07-19 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: Jeff Licquia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 18 Jul 2002 18:30:19 -0500 No, not at all. I think that your R3 right is the point of contention; we do not believe that the draft of the LPPL we've seen confers that right. This is exactly the reason of this discussion. I hope that the

Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia

2002-07-19 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:45:35 +1200 From: Nick Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] Under the LPPL we are not allowed to fix the engine either; we have to wait for D. E. Knuth to do it. Which I'm sure he would do, unless he happened to have been run over by a bus that morning (unlikely, as he

Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia

2002-07-19 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 16:38:03 -0400 From: Boris Veytsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] LaTeX. Actually, there ARE non-TeX programs that use LaTeX as macro packages. The most popular among such programs is pdftex. I use pdftex almost as often as tex. When pdftex is called as pdflatex, it loads

Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia

2002-07-19 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 01:24:24 -0500 From: Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] How does the LPPL actually prevent a distributor from FUBARing their distribution of LaTeX? The fact is people regularly ignore licenses, copyrights, patents and trademarks (if this weren't the case, there'd be

Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia

2002-07-19 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 12:19:07 -0500 From: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1) Names and titles are not copyrightable. If you want intellectual property protection in a name, you need a trade mark, service mark, certification mark, or similar instrument. I afraid this is not -- so

Re: LaTeX DFSG

2002-07-19 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 02:07:05 +0200 From: Frank Mittelbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5) -- that's a little tricky with that file as it is a boot-trapping TeX file in essentially every other tex/latex file the identification stuff is on top but when a kernel is made Tex starts out

Re: User's thoughts about LPPL

2002-07-18 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 04:15:20 -0400 From: Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] If the core can be changed in any way without changing it directly, then you can break output exactly as well by this mechanism as you could by editing it directly. No, because to change the core you need to

Re: spokesman (was Re: User's thoughts about LPPL)

2002-07-18 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: Sam Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 06:20:32 -0400 The TeX license is OK because it mandates what we call the program, but does not say anything about the API. Even if the binary is called uglytex, it's still easy for me to run it over .tex files. If those files

LaTeX DFSG

2002-07-18 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 09:43:15 -0400 From: Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have always appreciated the fact that you could run latex on 10 year-old sources and get the same output, but I have also come to appreciate the rights granted by DFSG-compliant software. I think we

Re: spokesman (was Re: User's thoughts about LPPL)

2002-07-17 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: Jeff Licquia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 17 Jul 2002 02:02:25 -0500 One possible important difference: there is, I would imagine, a much higher degree of consensus about the Debian Social Contract and DFSG within Debian than I expect there is in the LaTeX user community over licensing

Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia

2002-07-17 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 07:42:23 -0500 From: John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] By the way I hope Debian developers do NOT reserve the right to change King James Version? How do you think the world got the Revised Standard Version? The importance of the ability to copy and modify works

Standartization and TeX

2002-07-17 Thread Boris Veytsman
I apologize for being so prolific writer on this list. Still, I'd like to clear an important point. When we talked about LaTeX being both a program and a language standard, some Debian people told us that this situation is the same as with Perl, Python, Ruby etc. I think there is a big difference

Re: Standartization and TeX

2002-07-17 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:47:37 -0500 From: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 10:27:55AM -0400, Boris Veytsman wrote: However, I agree with David Carlisle, that this discussion is moot. The present LPPL conforms to the present DFSG. Present meaning the one

Re: Hypothetical LaTeX security holes

2002-07-17 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:36:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Rafn [EMAIL PROTECTED] In order to be free, it must allow exactly what LPPL seems designed to prevent. A Debian user can take LaTeX, make it behave differently than the original, (including producing different output), and distribute

Re: Hypothetical LaTeX security holes

2002-07-17 Thread Boris Veytsman
From: Jeff Licquia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 17 Jul 2002 15:26:25 -0500 Absolutely nothing in the currently used LPPL prevents you from creating your version of LaTeX, call it latex-improved, and invoke it by a command latex-improved file.foo Absolutely nothing in any version of

Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia

2002-07-17 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 21:55:42 +0100 From: Timothy Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] (1) The intersection of those interested in LaTeX and those seriously interested in Debian is almost empty, I imagine. I would have said it was empty, except that Frank Mittelbach seems to belong to both sets.

Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia

2002-07-17 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 16:25:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] If these were the only restrictions (change contact info and change the name of the *program*, not the individual files), then we wouldn't be having this argument. I am afraid you do not understand the way

Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia

2002-07-17 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 03:33:57 +0200 From: Peter Palfrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Boris Veytsman wrote: Note that you do not need to this if you want to change latex behavior. Continuing the analogy, you do have an analog of LD_PRELOAD variable, so you do not need

Unidentified subject!

2002-07-16 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 22:59:13 +0100 From: David Carlisle [EMAIL PROTECTED] if that were the case you would presumably remove TeX and the TeX fonts from Debian as well. In that case the licence on LaTeX would be moot as without TeX you can't use LaTeX whatever the licence.

User's thoughts about LPPL

2002-07-16 Thread Boris Veytsman
Greetings: I apologize for butting in in the ongoing discussion. Moreover, I am neither a lawyer nor a LaTeX3 team member (a couple of my programs are in the distribution, both under GPL and LPPL). Nevertheless I hope that my thoughts might be of use. I am a Debian and LaTeX user, so the

Re: User's thoughts about LPPL

2002-07-16 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 19:18:02 -0500 From: Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't think anyone here has a problem with a license that says If your LaTeX doesn't pass such and such a validation suite, you can't call it LaTeX, but you can do whatever else you want to do with it. This

Re: Motivations; proposed alternative license

2002-07-16 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 17:28:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now you seem to be saying that there are so many ways to modify Latex that I would never need to change article.cls. What if article.cls is itself broken? Why can't I fix it and distribute that fix? You

Re: User's thoughts about LPPL

2002-07-16 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 03:41:42 +0300 From: Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 07:52:09PM -0400, Boris Veytsman wrote: B. The *name* TeX is reserved for Knuth's program. If you program is called TeX, it must satisfy triptest. You can NOT correct bugs

Re: Motivations; proposed alternative license

2002-07-16 Thread Boris Veytsman
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 22:48:28 -0500 From: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 09:23:14PM -0400, Boris Veytsman wrote: TeX people are from a different culture. TeX is not going to evolve. It is frozen. As Knuth said, These fonts are never going to change again