Am Mittwoch, 10. Juli 2002 17:17 hast du geschrieben: > I had been involved in a translation effort to make LaTeX base classes > accessible for French users. We then translated many *.dtx files. > Of course we only translated comments and never changed source code, > but they are merged in a single file. > AFAICT this is forbidden by the LPPL, since we did not rename classes > (which would not make sense). > > So I would much appreciate if the new license would allow translating > LaTeX classes. I wouldn't. Because instead of changing the dtx-files everybody can write a e.g. fenchbookdoc.tex with the translated description of book.cls. Most users doesn't need the implementation documentation and if they need it, they should understand english or is there a french translation of The TeXbook? -- Markus