[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Towards a new LPPL draft



Glenn Maynard wrote:
> I'm not a DD.  For those interested in my opinion anyway:  What if I
> want to modify Latex to remove the filename mapping?  If the
> DFSG-freeness is dependent on that mechanism, then I can't remove it
> (for the best or worst of technical reasons) and have it remain
> DFSG-free.  Having freeness dependent on a feature being present is
> strange.

What's wrong with the conditional statement (unproven assertion:) 
  "The LPPL-1.3 is DFSG-free, but only when applied to software which makes
the file-renaming requirement easy"

This is essentially what is said about the GFDL, "It's DFSG-free only if no
options are used in the document"

--Joe



-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org



Reply to: