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Re: Question(s) for clarifications with respect to the LPPL discussion



On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:

> For debian people: please consider this. I believe this voids many of the
> intents of the license, as previously mentioned (sysadmins can use this
> remapping feature to make \documentclass{article} load some other file
> instead of 'article.cls'), but this is also the reason FSF agreed that it 
> is a free software license.

It's clearly a judgment of "how intrusive is it".  Arguments that it's not
very intrusive show (IMO) that this requirement should be removed from the
license.

In other words: if it doesn't matter, why require it?
--
Mark Rafn    dagon@dagon.net    <http://www.dagon.net/>  


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