Request for Legacy Approval for the LaTeX Project Public Licence

[Ernest Prabhakar]

FWIW, as a LaTeX fan I recommend Legacy Approval. It may not be the  
cleanest license, but it exists for historical reasons and if it  
conforms to the OSD we may as well allow it.

-enp
On Sep 8, 2009, at 4:02 PM, Will Robertson wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> This is a formal request to consider for review the LaTeX Project  
> Public License (LPPL) as an OSI-approved open source license. The  
> LPPL has been used for over ten years as the license for LaTeX  
> itself and the de facto license for most contributed LaTeX software.
>
> The current version of the license is v1.3c, located with historical  
> versions at the LaTeX Project website: <http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/ 
> >
>
> It has been recognised by debian-legal as following the Debian Free  
> Software Guidelines, following an extensive discussion circa 2002  
> and a revision then of the license text: <http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/ 
> >
>
> It falls under the category "Licenses that are popular and widely  
> used or with strong communities". The majority of the code on  
> Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN, http://ctan.org/) is  
> licensed under the LPPL.
>
> Please do not hesitate to contact me if you require further  
> information.
>
> Will Robertson
> On behalf of the LaTeX3 Project Team
>
>