Re: Towards a new LPPL draft
Jeremy Hankins <nowan@nowan.org> wrote:
> Jeff Licquia <licquia@debian.org> writes:
>
> > OK. Now I'd like to hear the Debian side. Here are the conditions for
> > modification that are being proposed as I understand them:
> >
> > - you must rename all modified files, or
> >
> > - you must rename the whole of LaTeX in your modified copy AND
> > distribute a pristine copy of LaTeX as well.
> >
> > Comments? Branden, Walter, Mark, and Jeremy, I'm especially interested
> > in your opinions, since you three are the current objectors.
>
> Yikes. I'd accept the former as free before the latter, personally.
> Giving users options is one thing, but option two seems to suggest
> that if Latex is forked for some reason we'll need to ferry around the
> original (from the date of the fork) version of latex whenever
> distributing the new version, forever. That's a far more onerous
> requirement than file renaming, imho.
This is specifically allowed by DFSG #4. The Q Public License uses
this feature as well. If you don't like it, feel free to call a
General Resolution to change it. Until then, it is still part of the
DFSG.
Regards,
Walter Landry
wlandry@ucsd.edu
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