Martin -- Are you saying this _after_ reading Barbara Beeton's comments? BTW a number of licenses are accepted by and in use at CTAN. > > is actually already there (and he was satisfied with it). > > Fact is that the LPPL is no approved license for Sourceforge, . . . > I know your rationale for the license, but the fact that it's not > approved by theses repositories makes life at least more > complicated than needed. I think that LaTeX project needs in the matter of software components for tex, the program, and its cousins _are_ more complicated than those for ordinary programs. Note, that GNU provides a variant license for libraries than for applications. Don't we have a different type of object here? -- Bill