-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 "DA" == Donald Arseneau <[log in to unmask]> DA> I have another problem with the use of LPPL for DA> contributed packages: it has no provision for the DA> author/supporter "disappearing" from LaLa LaTeX land, and DA> prevents anybody from adopting support in perpetuity. DA> This is not really a problem for the LaTeX core DA> distribution. That's the main issue that I (personally) see as a problem with the LPPL. As I said in previous exchanges (mostly with Robin), none of the Debian people who have qualms have articulated those qualms in public. - From my mail, it looks like two of them are likely to be * Restrictions on distribution -- requiring the distribution of the source (dtx and ins files) as well as the derived files (sty, tex, ps, pdf, etc.), despite the appearance of copyright statements. (Debian currently distributes a separate tetex-source package that contains the dtx and ins files.) * Questions about the requirement to rename modified files. If you want to get a better idea of what some of the more ``hard-line'' Debian people are thinking, I (or Frank) could submit the text of Frank's changes to the <[log in to unmask]> mailing list for discussion or invite interested parties from that list to join latex-l for (at least) the duration of this discussion. Claire +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Man cannot be civilised, or be kept civilised by what he does in his spare time; only by what he does as his work. W.R. Lethaby +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ C.M. Connelly [log in to unmask] SHC, DS +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.6 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQE9GVdwzrFKeh3cmQ0RAmtGAKCIHZuBi2ZaC3u1ZNKMppmygZ5wkgCgvKw2 zmiGTQqyOGUDbKFCJsgKns8= =MnfN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----