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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/lppl.txt b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/lppl.txt index f721587db1b..90e5e3ab797 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/lppl.txt +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/lppl.txt @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ The LaTeX Project Public License =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -LPPL Version 1.3 2003-12-01 +LPPL Version 1.3c 2006-05-20 -Copyright 1999 2002-03 LaTeX3 Project +Copyright 1999 2002-2006 LaTeX3 Project Everyone is allowed to distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but modification of it is not allowed. @@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ which the the LaTeX kernel and the base LaTeX packages are distributed. You may use this license for any work of which you hold the copyright and which you wish to distribute. This license may be particularly -suitable if your work is TeX-related (such as a LaTeX package), but -you may use it with small modifications even if your work is unrelated -to TeX. +suitable if your work is TeX-related (such as a LaTeX package), but +it is written in such a way that you can use it even if your work is +unrelated to TeX. The section `WHETHER AND HOW TO DISTRIBUTE WORKS UNDER THIS LICENSE', below, gives instructions, examples, and recommendations for authors @@ -82,12 +82,14 @@ In this license document the following terms are used: `Base Interpreter' A program or process that is normally needed for running or interpreting a part or the whole of the Work. + A Base Interpreter may depend on external components but these are not considered part of the Base Interpreter provided that each external component clearly identifies itself whenever it is used interactively. Unless explicitly specified when applying the license to the Work, the only applicable Base Interpreter is a - "LaTeX-Format". + `LaTeX-Format' or in the case of files belonging to the + `LaTeX-format' a program implementing the `TeX language'. @@ -162,8 +164,8 @@ to a component of the Work. condition, even though third parties are not compelled to copy the Work along with the modified component; - 2. Information that is sufficient to obtain a complete, unmodified - copy of the Work. + 2. Information that is sufficient to obtain a complete, + unmodified copy of the Work. 7. If you are not the Current Maintainer of the Work, you may distribute a Compiled Work generated from a Derived Work, as long as @@ -171,9 +173,9 @@ the Derived Work is distributed to all recipients of the Compiled Work, and as long as the conditions of Clause 6, above, are met with regard to the Derived Work. -8. The conditions above are not intended to prohibit, and hence do -not apply to, the modification, by any method, of any component so that it -becomes identical to an updated version of that component of the Work as +8. The conditions above are not intended to prohibit, and hence do not +apply to, the modification, by any method, of any component so that it +becomes identical to an updated version of that component of the Work as it is distributed by the Current Maintainer under Clause 4, above. 9. Distribution of the Work or any Derived Work in an alternative @@ -187,7 +189,7 @@ applying that process. Clause 6 above, in regard to the Work, though it does not have to honor the rest of the conditions in this license. - b. If a Derived Work is distributed under this license, that + b. If a Derived Work is distributed under a different license, that Derived Work must provide sufficient documentation as part of itself to allow each recipient of that Derived Work to honor the restrictions in Clause 6 above, concerning changes from the Work. @@ -206,19 +208,19 @@ NO WARRANTY There is no warranty for the Work. Except when otherwise stated in writing, the Copyright Holder provides the Work `as is', without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not -limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for -a particular purpose. The entire risk as to the quality and performance -of the Work is with you. Should the Work prove defective, you -assume the cost of all necessary servicing, repair, or correction. - -In no event unless agreed to in writing will the Copyright Holder, or -any author named in the components of the Work, or any other party who -may distribute and/or modify the Work as permitted above, be liable to -you for damages, including any general, special, incidental or -consequential damages arising out of any use of the Work or out of -inability to use the Work (including, but not limited to, loss of -data, data being rendered inaccurate, or losses sustained by anyone as -a result of any failure of the Work to operate with any other +limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a +particular purpose. The entire risk as to the quality and performance +of the Work is with you. Should the Work prove defective, you assume +the cost of all necessary servicing, repair, or correction. + +In no event unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing +will The Copyright Holder, or any author named in the components of the +Work, or any other party who may distribute and/or modify the Work as +permitted above, be liable to you for damages, including any general, +special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of any use of +the Work or out of inability to use the Work (including, but not limited +to, loss of data, data being rendered inaccurate, or losses sustained by +anyone as a result of any failure of the Work to operate with any other programs), even if the Copyright Holder or said author or said other party has been advised of the possibility of such damages. @@ -229,7 +231,7 @@ MAINTENANCE OF THE WORK The Work has the status `author-maintained' if the Copyright Holder explicitly and prominently states near the primary copyright notice in the Work that the Work can only be maintained by the Copyright Holder -or simply that is `author-maintained'. +or simply that it is `author-maintained'. The Work has the status `maintained' if there is a Current Maintainer who has indicated in the Work that they are willing to receive error @@ -350,7 +352,7 @@ component is constrained by the conditions in this license. Here is an example of such a notice and statement: %% pig.dtx - %% Copyright 2003 M. Y. Name + %% Copyright 2005 M. Y. Name % % This work may be distributed and/or modified under the % conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3 @@ -358,11 +360,11 @@ Here is an example of such a notice and statement: % The latest version of this license is in % http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt % and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX - % version 2003/12/01 or later. + % version 2005/12/01 or later. % - % This work has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained". + % This work has the LPPL maintenance status `maintained'. % - % This Current Maintainer of this work is M. Y. Name. + % The Current Maintainer of this work is M. Y. Name. % % This work consists of the files pig.dtx and pig.ins % and the derived file pig.sty. @@ -371,12 +373,25 @@ Given such a notice and statement in a file, the conditions given in this license document would apply, with the `Work' referring to the three files `pig.dtx', `pig.ins', and `pig.sty' (the last being generated from `pig.dtx' using `pig.ins'), the `Base Interpreter' -referring to any "LaTeX-Format", and both `Copyright Holder' and +referring to any `LaTeX-Format', and both `Copyright Holder' and `Current Maintainer' referring to the person `M. Y. Name'. -To prevent the Maintenance section of LPPL from allowing someone else -to become the Current Maintainer without your agreement, you could -change "maintained" above into "author-maintained". +If you do not want the Maintenance section of LPPL to apply to your +Work, change `maintained' above into `author-maintained'. +However, we recommend that you use `maintained', as the Maintenance +section was added in order to ensure that your Work remains useful to +the community even when you can no longer maintain and support it +yourself. + +Derived Works That Are Not Replacements +--------------------------------------- + +Several clauses of the LPPL specify means to provide reliability and +stability for the user community. They therefore concern themselves +with the case that a Derived Work is intended to be used as a +(compatible or incompatible) replacement of the original Work. If +this is not the case (e.g., if a few lines of code are reused for a +completely different task), then clauses 6b and 6d shall not apply. Important Recommendations |