Re: Revised LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL)

[Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu>]

Jeff Licquia <licquia@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 14:38, Walter Landry wrote:
> > I get the feeling that this license is being considered only in the
> > context of LaTeX, not in the context of all of free software.  We
> > can't say that it is ok to use this license for LaTeX, but not for
> > Mozilla, Apache, Samba and OpenSSH.
> 
> Why not?  We aren't proposing relicensing anything under this license
> except for LaTeX itself.

If a program suddenly becomes non-free when you make a certain
modification, then it was never free to begin with.  

Regards,
Walter Landry
wlandry@ucsd.edu