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

2002-07-20 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Sam Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But you're right, if the LaTeX license allows this it may be DFSG free. And, we can create another package that has a symlink from latex to patched-not-really-latex. That other package would not be, in any way, a derivate of latex, and thus it isn't sub

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

2002-07-18 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Boris" == Boris Veytsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Boris> This is exactly the same with LaTeX. If you create a new Boris> format newlatex.fmt and symlink /usr/bin/tex to Boris> /usr/bin/newlatex (this is the UNIX TeX way to use Boris> formats), then you have a complete free

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 >

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

2002-07-18 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Jeff" == Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeff> On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 01:31, Frank Mittelbach wrote: >> Branden Robinson writes: > Perhaps the LaTeX community should >> appoint a spokesman to the Debian > Project so that we do not >> get contradictory statements abou

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 > li

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

2002-07-17 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 01:31, Frank Mittelbach wrote: > Branden Robinson writes: > > Perhaps the LaTeX community should appoint a spokesman to the Debian > > Project so that we do not get contradictory statements about what is > > acceptable? > > Branden, pardon me, but i think this is funny. se

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

2002-07-17 Thread Frank Mittelbach
Branden Robinson writes: > The ease of alternatives to modifying source code is not important. The > right of the user to create modifications and derived works is. > > Interestingly, Frank Mittelbach is asserting that it is not the intent > of the LPPL to forbid mere modification of LaTeX