On Jan 8, 2004, at 06:02, Robert Joerdens wrote:
Hmm. Provide the LaTex code (scrambled) and place it under the GPL. Providing source code (LaTex) that contains a few errors (scrambling) might still qualify as "source code" because it _is_ the sourcecode for the PDF. Problem is that someone could start distributing "corrected" versions.
s/could/would/You can certainly release under a "copy, but don't modify" type license. But that (obviously) isn't free.
But if you release something under a free license, expect people to fix the scrambling, remove the unsightly 'watermark', etc. Even a BSD-licensed PDF would have this done to it: Fairly easy to dump the text, and reformat it, for example.