On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 01:29:36AM +0200, Frank Mittelbach wrote: > Thomas Bushnell, BSG writes: > > Indeed, I can do two things: > > Make a derivate work of latex, which is variant, and called > > "special-non-latex". > > Make a package with no derivatives of latex at all, which contains a > > single symlink: 'latex -> special-non-latex'. > > Happy with that? > yes. > for the kernel it is a bit tricky, but for packages under LPPL (and the > majority of software which was put by their authors under LPPL) it is not a > problem. > the moment somebody has a document that loads your fudged package into LaTeX , > LaTeX will detect that you are trying to sail under a stolen flag and that is > the whole purpose. Are you using the word 'package' here in the same sense as Thomas? AIUI, Thomas is referring to creating a Debian package -- not a TeX package -- that is called 'latex' and which provides a mechanism (a symlink or an execve hack) for directly invoking his modified-and-renamed version of LaTeX by the original name. Would LaTeX really be able to detect this subterfuge? Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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