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Re: Motivations; proposed alternative license



On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 22:52, Boris Veytsman wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 22:48:28 -0500
> > From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
> 
> 
> > On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 09:23:14PM -0400, Boris Veytsman wrote:
> > > TeX people are from a different culture. TeX is not going to evolve.
> > > It is frozen. As Knuth said, "These fonts are never going to change
> > > again" (http://sunburn.stanford.edu/~knuth/cm.html).=20
> > 
> > If that philosophy is embodied in a copyright license, it violates
> > clause 3 of the DFSG and is unsuitable for the Debian distribution.
> > 
> 
> 
> Then you should stop distribute TeX, texinfo and GNU info.
> 
> As well as King James Version of Bible, I am afraid...

The King James Bible is in the public domain, so we are allowed to
modify it all we want.


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