Am 09.10.2011 09:25, schrieb Jean-Pierre Chrétien:
Le 09/10/2011 06:33, Uwe Stöhr a écrit :
Am 07.10.2011 16:17, schrieb Jean-Pierre Chrétien:
But this is not the case. The default setting is still to use prettyref.
refstyle is only used if you explicitly set its option in the document
settings.
Just open a fresh document and look at Document>Settings>Document class.
Indeed.
And take a look at the prettyref code, I don't understand how Kevin Ruland can
claim copyright for
such a small piece of creativity,
For the copyright the length of a code is irrelevant. In Germany (not in all countries) you can
however try to declare something below the threshold of originality
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality
but this would be very hard in case of prettyref. Another issue is that the copyright laws differ
heavily from country to country. For example in Germany you cannot publish something under public
domain, you can not transfer your copyright and also not relinquish your copyright, even if you want
to. As strange as it is, spending some work is not possible. You will currently hold it until 70
years after your death.
So some licenses at CTAN are simply illegal in many countries and there is nothing the CTAN
maintainer can do.
which has no provision for multinlingual application and in
addition is hopelessly broken in French babel.
prettyref never claimed to support any other language than English. This is also the case for many
other LaTeX-packages from the 90s. (prettyref was the last time modified in 1998.)
I will add a note in the docs about this problematic.
As a result, users have developed a lot of document
specific command definitions, which prevented LyX developers to simply remove
support for it from
the LyX distribution (see the threads about this last year).
We have similar problems with other packages too.
Have I mentioned the ridiculous public domain release, clearly just added to
avoid being thrown away
by TL maintainers ?
Why is this ridiculous? In 1998 the licensing crap was not at the scope in public. Thus many
developers simply didn't thought about a license. 10 years later TL suddenly kicked out packages
without a license which was stupid. They think that the US copyright is valid all over the world,
but this is not the case. In case of floatflt wrapped floats were therefore not usable in LyX. But
switching to wrapfig was only possible for a major LyX release, because of the fileformat change. It
cost me lot of time to find out the current email of the floatflt author to inform him and after he
gave me his OK to change the license, I had some long discussions with the CTAN maintainers because
his power of attorney to me was not accepted. Finally I was able to change the license.
regards Uwe
