Re: DFSG, the LaTeX Project and its works (Was: none)
Branden & Bill
> > P.S. Just because present LPPL might not conform to DFSG does not
> > mean that LaTeX is not free.
true Bill, but irrelevent in this discussion as Branden correctly points out
below
> The LaTeX Project is at liberty to represent the LPPL as a "free"
> license to whoever it wishes, regardless of what terms the LPPL actually
> contains.
>
> The only definition of "free" that is important to Debian in the current
> context is that embodied by the Debian Free Software Guidelines. Please
> do not misinterpret the Debian Project's shorthand usage of the word
> "free" for "compliant with the Debian Free Software Guidelines" as an
> effort to get the entire world to adopt this shorthand. We simply do
> this for economy of usage in our internal mailing lists. Within our
> community, this abbreviation is well-understood. Visitors to our
> project need not adopt our usage if they fear they would be
> misunderstood.
why are we back to that discussion? I think at least David and I had
made it clear that we don't intend to argue in this way.
frank
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