Re: Blast from the Past: the LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3

2004-07-13 Thread Josh Triplett
Frank Küster wrote: Sorting this out and contacting all upstream authors would take a hell lot of time. Asking them to upload a new version to CTAN instead of sending us a mail, because such a mail would be problematic wrt to DFSG clause 8, would take even more time. So much time that we will

Re: Blast from the Past: the LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3

2004-07-12 Thread Branden Robinson
[I am not subscribed to debian-tetex-maint.] On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 02:38:20PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote: On 11.07.04 Branden Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hmmm. I don't suppose it's a *huge* deal, but do you think we could ask upstream to apply the new LPPL to the existing

Re: Blast from the Past: the LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3

2004-07-12 Thread Frank Küster
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 02:38:20PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote: On 11.07.04 Branden Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hmmm. I don't suppose it's a *huge* deal, but do you think we could ask upstream to apply the new LPPL to the existing codebase?

Re: Blast from the Past: the LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3

2004-07-11 Thread Hilmar Preusse
On 11.07.04 Branden Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:04:51AM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote: Hi $\forall$, Thomas has delivered out 2.0.2 with 1.2 and I'm not sure if it makes sense to put just in 1.3 and hope that every package declares a dep on 1.2 or

Re: Blast from the Past: the LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3

2004-07-10 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:04:51AM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote: Thomas has delivered out 2.0.2 with 1.2 and I'm not sure if it makes sense to put just in 1.3 and hope that every package declares a dep on 1.2 or later(!). [...] Exactly. Thomas continues releasing beta releases for the upcoming

Re: Blast from the Past: the LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3

2004-07-09 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, thank you Branden for your comparison and all the work you folks put into this issue! Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oddly, the version of the LPPL shipped in tetex-base[8] is still version 1.2, and a review of the tetex package changelog shows no new upstream release since

Re: Blast from the Past: the LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3

2004-07-09 Thread Hilmar Preusse
On 07.07.04 Branden Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi guys, Oddly, the version of the LPPL shipped in tetex-base[8] is still version 1.2, Thomas has delivered out 2.0.2 with 1.2 and I'm not sure if it makes sense to put just in 1.3 and hope that every package declares a dep on 1.2 or

Blast from the Past: the LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3

2004-07-06 Thread Branden Robinson
Hi guys, Last year I posted an analysis in two parts[1][2] of the then-draft version of the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL). In December, Frank Küster asked what the status of the LPPL was[3], and I told him I didn't know[4]. Well, that same month, the LaTeX Project folks finalized the