On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:14:30PM +0200, Frank Mittelbach wrote: > approach as an option (i.e. to put LaTeX under GPL) that we came to the > conclusion that it is not the right approach for software of a type like > LaTeX. The GPL/LaTeX issue was evidently settled long ago, and I wouldn't like to re-open an old hornet's nest, but I've seen you refer several times to the difference in kind or type between LaTeX and GPL-ed programs. I don't really see this difference. If someone put out a new version of stdio.h , it seems to me it would cause exactly the same kind of chaos as if they put out a new version of article.cls . I've never come across rival versions of, say, Linux kernel files -- except in different versions of the kernel. Does this danger actually arise in practice? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: [log in to unmask] tel: 086-233 6090 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland