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Re: Encoding the name in the file contents (was Re: Towards a new LPPL draft)



Thomas Bushnell, BSG writes:
 > Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net> writes:
 > 
 > > Scripsit tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
 > > > Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net> writes:
 > > 
 > > > > You're missing the point. The LaTeX people certainly do know that
 > > > > there are *some* places where pristine files are expected. It's not
 > > > > necessary for them to be able to identify each of those places
 > > > > individually.
 > > 
 > > > They have no information whatsoever about the user of the package.
 > > 
 > > They don't speak about *all* users. Their points consider the fact
 > > that there are *some* users who have this property.
 > 
 > But this is the problem!  They take away the freedom of all users in
 > order to give a subset of the users a benefit.  

Thomas,

I must confess that i havea bit of a problem to understand the exchange
between you and Henning, but could you please be more precise about

 - which freedom is taken away from all users, and
 - which freedom is given to a subset

frank
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