Re: Status of new LPPL version?

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> schrieb:

> On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 04:09:37PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
>> does anybody know what is going to happen with regard to LPPL-1.3, and
>> in which timeline? The latest mails I found were 
>> 
>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200306/msg00206.html
>> (a new draft)
>> 
>> and two analyses by Branden Robinson, with one follow-up by Frank
>> Mittelbach. 
>> 
>> I would be glad to be pointed to some place where I can find further
>> information on that. The actual reason why I looked for it is that I am
>> thinking of incorporating some code from a GPL'ed LaTeX add-on package
>> into mine, but do not want to license mine under GPL, but rather under a
>> DFSG-free LPPL. I guess it will be much easier to convince the author to
>> re-license his package if I can tell him that LPPL is also DFSG-free.
>
> As far as I know, the new license hasn't actually been attached to
> anything yet.  You'd probably need to contact Frank Mittelbach for a
> status update.

Thank you, I'll do that.

Bye, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie