Re: Hypothetical LaTeX security holes
> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:36:46 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Mark Rafn <dagon@dagon.net>
>
> In order to be free, it must allow exactly what LPPL seems designed to
> prevent. A Debian user can take LaTeX, make it behave differently than
> the original, (including producing different output), and distribute the
> result.
>
> If I can't call it latex, fine. I'll call it latex-improved and set up
> the scripts that invoke it to use that by default. If I can't do that,
> then it's not free.
>
Absolutely nothing in the currently used LPPL prevents you from
creating your version of LaTeX, call it latex-improved, and invoke it
by a command
latex-improved file.foo
David Carlisle told about a situation where it was actually done; this
version is called pslatex. You are free to distribute this version al
long as it is called latex-improved.
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