Re: the LPPL and DFSG 4's patch clause

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:

> Not true.  We reached the conclusion that a requirement to rename files
> was a functional, technological restriction (as opposed to a legal
> restricition like "rename the copyrighted work"), and asked the LaTeX
> Project to remove that restriction[1] from the LPPL.  It is in fact gone
> in the latest draft of the LPPL which they submitted to us in July.

I suppose my phrase "basically exactly the same" was too weasily for
help.  You are quite right here.

Thomas