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Re: Motivations; proposed alternative license



On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 09:23:14PM -0400, Boris Veytsman wrote:
> TeX people are from a different culture. TeX is not going to evolve.
> It is frozen. As Knuth said, "These fonts are never going to change
> again" (http://sunburn.stanford.edu/~knuth/cm.html). 

If that philosophy is embodied in a copyright license, it violates
clause 3 of the DFSG and is unsuitable for the Debian distribution.

	Derived Works

	The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must
	allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license
	of the original software.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |    The best place to hide something is
Debian GNU/Linux                   |    in documentation.
branden@debian.org                 |                        -- Ethan Benson
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |

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