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Re: Motivations; proposed alternative license



> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 22:48:28 -0500
> From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>


> 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).=20
> 
> If that philosophy is embodied in a copyright license, it violates
> clause 3 of the DFSG and is unsuitable for the Debian distribution.
> 


Then you should stop distribute TeX, texinfo and GNU info.

As well as King James Version of Bible, I am afraid...

-- 
Good luck

-Boris

"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will
fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines."
-- Bertrand Russell


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