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Re: User's thoughts about LPPL



>>>>> In article <[🔎] 200207180938.KAA01108@penguin.nag.co.uk>, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk> writes:

> If you want more and want to change the kernel itself rather than
> redefining it on the fly (perhaps just for optimisation reasons) you can
> do that as well as long as you don't call it latex, see the quote from
> modguide.tex I posted a few minutes ago.

But that isn't all: if the restriction were just that I couldn't
distribute my changed (perhaps just very heavily commented) LaTeX
kernel under the name LaTeX, that part of the license would be
unambiguously DFSG-free.  It's the requirement that I change every
file name as well, coupled with TeX's heavy dependence on file names,
that is the problem here

> What more do you want?

Would a statement in the license that *either* of the following must
happen be acceptable to the LaTeX project?

* The modified copy of the Program is distributed under a name which
  clearly distinguishes it from Standard LaTeX, the unmodified copy.

* Any files which share names between the unmodified copy and the
  modified copy must be identical in content.  You may modify files
  only if you change their names.

-Brian

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