Re: Is this license DFSG compliant?

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Denis Barbier wrote:
> I can not determine whether this license is DFSG compliant or not,
> and i do not agree with opinions expressed on comp.text.tex about my
> questions.
> 
> So could someone confirm this is DFSG compliant, as claimed by the LaTeX
> Team ?
> I put `->' marks in front of the 3 lines causing trouble.
> 
> Thanks for your light.
> 
> %% Package `multicol' to use with LaTeX2e
> %% Copyright 1989-1999 Frank Mittelbach
> %%
> %%  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> %%  modify it under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License
> %%  Distributed from CTAN archives in directory latex/base/lppl.txt
> %%  either version 1.00 of the License,
> %%  or (at your option) any later version.
> %%
> %%  In addition to the terms of LPPL any distributed version
> %%  (unchanged or modified) of multicol has to keep the statement
> ->%%  about the moral obligation for using multicol. In case of major
> ->%%  changes where this would not be appropriate the author of the
> ->%%  changed version should contact the copyright holder.

It's a should, not a must, so it's ok.

Regards,

	Joey

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