Hi all, I can not determine whether this license is DFSG compliant or not, and i do not agree with opinions expressed on comp.text.tex about my questions.
So could someone confirm this is DFSG compliant, as claimed by the LaTeX Team ? I put `->' marks in front of the 3 lines causing trouble. Thanks for your light. %% Package `multicol' to use with LaTeX2e %% Copyright 1989-1999 Frank Mittelbach %% %% This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or %% modify it under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License %% Distributed from CTAN archives in directory latex/base/lppl.txt %% either version 1.00 of the License, %% or (at your option) any later version. %% %% In addition to the terms of LPPL any distributed version %% (unchanged or modified) of multicol has to keep the statement ->%% about the moral obligation for using multicol. In case of major ->%% changes where this would not be appropriate the author of the ->%% changed version should contact the copyright holder. %% %% %% Moral obligation for using multicol: %% ------------------------------------ %% %% Users of multicol who wish to include multicol or a modified %% version in a proprietary and commercially market product are asked %% under certain conditions (see below) for the payment of a license %% fee. The size of this fee is to be determined, in each instance, %% by the commercial user, depending on his/her judgment of the value of %% multicol for his/her product. %% %% The conditions for this are as follows: %% %% The producer of a proprietary and commercially market product that %% involves typesetting using multicol is asked to determine the %% value of a license fee if %% %% - the producer has developed the document and decided to include %% multicol %% %% - the producer has not developed the document (ie has received it %% from somebody else) but has directed the author to include multicol %% (for example, by providing a class file to be used by the author) %% %% %% There is no moral obligation in case %% %% - the producer has not developed the document and not has directed %% the author to include multicol (in that case the moral obligation %% lies with the author of the document) %% %% - the commercial product does not involve typesetting, e.g., %% consists, for example, of distributing multicol and its %% documentation. %% %% - multicol is used for non-commercial purposes %% %% - the developed document is not proprietary, i.e., is made %% available as free software itself (which doesn't prohibit its %% commercial marketing) %% %% Determinating a license fee might result in a license fee of zero %% (i.e., no payment) in case a producer has determined that the use %% of multicol has no enhancing effect on the product. This is a %% plausible scenario, i.e., in the above two cases the producer is %% only asked to evaluate the value of multicol for the product %% not for the payment of a license fee per se (which might or might %% not follow from this evaluation). %% %% The license fee, if any, can be payed either to the LaTeX3 fund %% (see ltx3info.txt in the base LaTeX distribution) or to the author of %% the program who can be contacted at %% %% [EMAIL PROTECTED] Denis
