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Re: Status of new LPPL version?



On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 04:09:37PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> does anybody know what is going to happen with regard to LPPL-1.3, and
> in which timeline? The latest mails I found were 
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200306/msg00206.html
> (a new draft)
> 
> and two analyses by Branden Robinson, with one follow-up by Frank
> Mittelbach. 
> 
> I would be glad to be pointed to some place where I can find further
> information on that. The actual reason why I looked for it is that I am
> thinking of incorporating some code from a GPL'ed LaTeX add-on package
> into mine, but do not want to license mine under GPL, but rather under a
> DFSG-free LPPL. I guess it will be much easier to convince the author to
> re-license his package if I can tell him that LPPL is also DFSG-free.

As far as I know, the new license hasn't actually been attached to
anything yet.  You'd probably need to contact Frank Mittelbach for a
status update.

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G. Branden Robinson                |
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