Heiko Oberdiek writes:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:04:54AM +0100, Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
 > 
 > >   % and version 1.3b or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX
 > >   % version 2006/01/07 or later.
 > 
 > It's confusing:
 >   http://www.latex-project.org/lppl-1-3b.txt
 > contains:
 >   LPPL Version 1.3b  2006-01-07
 > and
 >   http://www.latex-project.org/lppl-1-3c.txt
 > contains:
 >   LPPL Version 1.3c  2008-05-04
 > 
 > But LaTeX News, Issue 17, December 2005, says:
 > 
 > | Project licence news
 > |
 > | The LaTeX Project Public License has been updated
 > | slightly so that it is now version 1.3c. [...]
 > 
 > May I borrow the time machine? ;-)

nice. not that I LOL but  ... :-) I'm sure you realise what happened: a
non-perfect refactoring, where somebody (might have been me) went through all
files to update from 1.3b to 1.3c probably using some automation and that's
the result.

Guess we should revert this back to what it was before though I need to check
the old VCS files to see what actually happened and what the correct version
was for ltnews17. guess it is 1.3b as the ltnews dates are nominal dates so
that kind of fits even for time machines (it is like working in different time
zones :-)

cheers
frank