Bug#225833: Letter vs A4 again

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> wrote:

> Sure you can, in fact you already do have such a thing. It's not an error not
> to specify margin sizes in your document, there is a default specified in the
> class files. If the sysadmin felt like it he could go and edit those defaults.

No he cannot - the license forbids this.  If he wants to change a
standard class to produce a different layout, he has to rename it [1].
And there's a reason for that.

> Of course people are unlikely to want to edit those files, but they sure do
> want to their default paper size set appropriately.

To me it seems that only people who don't know how to easily specifiy
papersize specials would want that.

Regards, Frank



[1] Or implement the other option allowed in the LPPL, this other option
is it what makes it DFSG-free, but currently there's no framework to use
it.


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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)