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Re: Concluding the LPPL debate, try 2



On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 11:58:46AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote:
> > The "option 3" you propose would entail that two directory trees
> > existed, one which is the original LaTeX, and one where the kernel is
> > modified and renames but the rest of the files (say, third-party style
> > files) may be modified *without* renaming. Thus there would still
> > be a danger if the search path for the pristine software were to be
> > contaminated with references to the hacked tree.
> 
> That is correct.  However, causing a hacked, non-renamed, non-retokened
> file to be loaded and run by Standard LaTeX would be a license
> violation.

No.  Only distributing a modified LaTeX such that it would do so should
be a license violation.  Otherwise the license would not be DFSG.

Remember, "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor".  How one
*uses* the software must not be restricted.

The LaTeX folks are within their rights to insist that people not
distribute a thing that claims to be Standard LaTeX if it is not.

But distribution is not use/loading/running.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |      Never underestimate the power of
Debian GNU/Linux                   |      human stupidity.
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