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

2002-07-14 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 14:53, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 13-Jul-02, 23:54 (CDT), Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The first thing that becomes clear is their desire that LaTeX be as > > static and predictable as Microsoft Word over layout issues. > > Uhh, that's a joke, right? Or have

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

2002-07-14 Thread Steve Greenland
On 13-Jul-02, 23:54 (CDT), Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The first thing that becomes clear is their desire that LaTeX be as > static and predictable as Microsoft Word over layout issues. Uhh, that's a joke, right? Or have you really never used MS Word? As someone who has had the misf

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

2002-07-14 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 12:05, Sam Hartman wrote: > Jeff, it's not clear under your license how Debian could package a > modified version. OUr binary packaging system (and the DFSG) do not > really allow modifications to be separate from the original > particularly for compiled works. I may be miss

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

2002-07-14 Thread Sam Hartman
Jeff, it's not clear under your license how Debian could package a modified version. OUr binary packaging system (and the DFSG) do not really allow modifications to be separate from the original particularly for compiled works. I may be missing something obvious. Assuming that this license were a

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

2002-07-13 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 16:08, C.M. Connelly wrote: > The LaTeX Project Public License > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- [...] > We, the LaTeX3 Project, believe that the conditions below give you > the freedom to make and distribute modified versions of The Program > that conform with whatever tec