Re: license of cstex / cslatex

2006-05-27 Thread Joe Smith
"Francesco Poli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Because on the one hand the copyright holder says that no further restrictions (beyond the ones found in the GPL terms) can be imposed on recipients (see GPLv2, section 6). On the other hand he himself adds one such re

Re: license of cstex / cslatex

2006-05-26 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 26 May 2006 13:53:52 +0200 Frank Küster wrote: > "Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > Also it makes the work GPL-incompatible, which kindof > > defeats the point of using the GPL. > > I also thought about this. But isn't it de-facto GPL-compatible: Once > you've renamed it, y

Re: license of cstex / cslatex

2006-05-26 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 26 May 2006 00:05:09 -0400 Joe Smith wrote: > > "Thomas Esser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [...] > > Questions: > >- is it valid to refer to GPL and add such severe restrictions in > > an appendix? > > It is legal AFAIK (IANAL), but is relly poor form. I don't agree.

Re: license of cstex / cslatex

2006-05-26 Thread Frank Küster
"Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Questions: >>- is it valid to refer to GPL and add such severe restrictions in >> an appendix? > > It is legal AFAIK (IANAL), but is relly poor form. Agreed. > Also it makes the work GPL-incompatible, which kindof > defeats the point of using th

Re: licenses with name changing clauses (was: license of cstex / cslatex)

2006-05-26 Thread MJ Ray
=?iso-8859-1?q?Frank_K=FCster?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > While we're at it, there's a different issue in teTeX and TeXLive for > which I'd like to have some advice from -legal. ukhyphen.tex has now a > supposedly free license, but it has a broader renaming clause: Wow, that's arrogant, not only reser

Re: license of cstex / cslatex

2006-05-26 Thread Richard Stallman
- is it valid to refer to GPL and add such severe restrictions in an appendix? No. Trying to add extra restrictions onto the GNU GPL results in a sort of self-contradiction, where it is not clear what the license of a modified version should be. - is this a "free soft

Re: license of cstex / cslatex

2006-05-26 Thread Joe Smith
"Thomas Esser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, the teTeX package contains files which use the following license: COPYRIGHT = This macro package (csplain.ini, il2code.tex, csfonts.tex, hyphen.lan, plaina4.tex) is free software; you can redis

licenses with name changing clauses (was: license of cstex / cslatex)

2006-05-26 Thread Frank Küster
Thomas Esser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had done modifications of three files of that package and distributed > the changed files using the original filename. The author told me that > this violates his license. Actually, this only happened, because when > reading his license the first time, I

license of cstex / cslatex

2006-05-25 Thread Thomas Esser
Hi, the teTeX package contains files which use the following license: COPYRIGHT = This macro package (csplain.ini, il2code.tex, csfonts.tex, hyphen.lan, plaina4.tex) is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public L