Re: Transitive closure of licenses

[Frank Mittelbach <frank.mittelbach@latex-project.org>]

Glenn Maynard writes:
 > If I remove any given features from a BSD-licensed program, it remains
 > free.

but the same would be true for the LPPL as proposed to be rewritten by me with
the help of Jeff and others.

I repeat the essential point is that requirement to be able to apply LPPL
would be with repect to the underlying virtual machine for which the code is
written. So by changing anything in a work licened under LPPL this feature or
rather description of the domain to which LPPL could be applied couldn't
change.

furthermore as LPPL absolutely leave it up to you which license you give your
derived work (other than requiring that further modification do not rename it
to the original file name) so ... but i just saw that Richard withdrew his
objection about closure in this respect.

frank


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