The LaTeX Project Public License

John Cowan jcowan at reutershealth.com
Mon May 22 16:33:05 UTC 2000


Russell Nelson wrote:
> 
> Please review this license.
> -russ

I think the only objectionable point is:

> Distribution of only part of The Program is not allowed.

This prevents you from distributing a portion of The Program as an
integral component of your program (e.g. a subroutine library that
is part of The Program).

You can bypass this language by making, and documenting, a trivial
hack to the file you wish to copy, I suppose.

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