Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia
On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 9:48 am, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On a technical point, I would have thought
> that any conceivable change to article.cls
> could be encompassed in a package (.sty file),
> and you could simply tell people that you think article class
> is greatly improved if you usepackage{debianmods} or whatever.
The fact that something is a bad idea for technical reasons is no reason for
it to be made legally impossible. (Insert any number of Microsoft jokes here)
Yes, any *reasonable* person would find this license acceptable in most
cases, but please spare a thought for those that are perhaps less reasonable
- for example if someone wanted to rewrite LaTeX to typeset Klingon (it may
already be done) and this required such a modification - my point being that
there are surely circumstances where one might wish to alter this file,
however outlandish or "unlikely" they may sound.
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