On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 01:24:09AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > After the last round of discussions, the LaTeX Project has asked me to > review and present a new revision of the LPPL, which is attached below. > > It is unlikely that I will be able to participate in the discussion this > time around due to time constraints, but the LaTeX people should be > around to hear your feedback. > > The parts of the license that have caused the most friction in the past > are now fully contained within clause 6. I doubt that any other part of > the license will be seen as objectionable (except, possibly, in their > invokation of clause 6). It is my opinion that clause 6 does not > violate the Debian Free Software Guidelines. At first glance this looks really good, and probably satisfies the DFSG. While reading over it I noticed some places where the wording could be tweaked or tightened up (I even found a possible loophole the LaTeX folks might want to close), but I'll defer that for a much closer reading. Thanks a lot; I greatly appreciate your patience and that of Frank Mittelbach and numerous others in the LaTeX Project. -- G. Branden Robinson | The noble soul has reverence for Debian GNU/Linux | itself. branden@debian.org | -- Friedrich Nietzsche http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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