Re: User's thoughts about LPPL
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 09:38:47AM +0100, David Carlisle wrote:
>>> But you have *no* way to assure this, short of trademarking the name
>>> "latex".
>>
>> That is a very tired argument.
>> Of course it is true as written, but it ignores the fact that LPPL has
>> been remarkably successful in its stated aims.
>
> Why do you believe that moving these things to a separate document,
> asking people to do this in good faith, would be any less successful
> than trying to force them to in a license?
Experience. The question «how to modify book.sty?» is a FAQ, and
the problem happened before the lppl was introduced (and it was
one of the reasons it was adopted, I think).
Javier
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