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diff --git a/licenses/LPPL-1.3c b/licenses/LPPL-1.3c index 90e5e3ab7974..b0f86d50d447 100644 --- a/licenses/LPPL-1.3c +++ b/licenses/LPPL-1.3c @@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ 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 -it is written in such a way that you can use it even if your work is +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', @@ -44,11 +44,11 @@ In this license document the following terms are used: `Work' Any work being distributed under this License. - + `Derived Work' Any work that under any applicable law is derived from the Work. - `Modification' + `Modification' Any procedure that produces a Derived Work under any applicable law -- for example, the production of a file containing an original file associated with the Work or a significant portion of @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ In this license document the following terms are used: `Modify' To apply any procedure that produces a Derived Work under any applicable law. - + `Distribution' Making copies of the Work available from one person to another, in whole or in part. Distribution includes (but is not limited to) @@ -79,16 +79,16 @@ In this license document the following terms are used: no such explicit nomination then it is the `Copyright Holder' under any applicable law. - `Base Interpreter' + `Base Interpreter' A program or process that is normally needed for running or - interpreting a part or the whole of the Work. + 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' or in the case of files belonging to the + `LaTeX-Format' or in the case of files belonging to the `LaTeX-format' a program implementing the `TeX language'. @@ -129,8 +129,8 @@ the Derived Work. distribute a Derived Work provided the following conditions are met for every component of the Work unless that component clearly states in the copyright notice that it is exempt from that condition. Only -the Current Maintainer is allowed to add such statements of exemption -to a component of the Work. +the Current Maintainer is allowed to add such statements of exemption +to a component of the Work. a. If a component of this Derived Work can be a direct replacement for a component of the Work when that component is used with the @@ -140,13 +140,13 @@ to a component of the Work. clearly and unambiguously identifies itself as a modified version of this component to the user when used interactively with that Base Interpreter. - + b. Every component of the Derived Work contains prominent notices detailing the nature of the changes to that component, or a prominent reference to another file that is distributed as part of the Derived Work and that contains a complete and accurate log of the changes. - + c. No information in the Derived Work implies that any persons, including (but not limited to) the authors of the original version of the Work, provide any support, including (but not limited to) @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ to a component of the Work. d. You distribute at least one of the following with the Derived Work: - 1. A complete, unmodified copy of the Work; + 1. A complete, unmodified copy of the Work; if your distribution of a modified component is made by offering access to copy the modified component from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy @@ -183,15 +183,15 @@ format, where the Work or that Derived Work (in whole or in part) is then produced by applying some process to that format, does not relax or nullify any sections of this license as they pertain to the results of applying that process. - + 10. a. A Derived Work may be distributed under a different license provided that license itself honors the conditions listed in 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 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 + itself to allow each recipient of that Derived Work to honor the restrictions in Clause 6 above, concerning changes from the Work. 11. This license places no restrictions on works that are unrelated to @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ the Work through the following steps: a. If it is being maintained, then ask the Current Maintainer to update their communication data within one month. - + b. If the search is unsuccessful or no action to resume active maintenance is taken by the Current Maintainer, then announce within the pertinent community your intention to take over @@ -270,17 +270,17 @@ the Work through the following steps: 3a. If the Current Maintainer is reachable and agrees to pass maintenance of the Work to you, then this takes effect immediately upon announcement. - + b. If the Current Maintainer is not reachable and the Copyright Holder agrees that maintenance of the Work be passed to you, - then this takes effect immediately upon announcement. - + then this takes effect immediately upon announcement. + 4. If you make an `intention announcement' as described in 2b. above and after three months your intention is challenged neither by the Current Maintainer nor by the Copyright Holder nor by other people, then you may arrange for the Work to be changed so as to name you as the (new) Current Maintainer. - + 5. If the previously unreachable Current Maintainer becomes reachable once more within three months of a change completed under the terms of 3b) or 4), then that Current Maintainer must @@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ Here is an example of such a notice and statement: % version 2005/12/01 or later. % % This work has the LPPL maintenance status `maintained'. - % + % % The Current Maintainer of this work is M. Y. Name. % % This work consists of the files pig.dtx and pig.ins @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ referring to any `LaTeX-Format', and both `Copyright Holder' and `Current Maintainer' referring to the person `M. Y. Name'. If you do not want the Maintenance section of LPPL to apply to your -Work, change `maintained' above into `author-maintained'. +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 @@ -407,10 +407,9 @@ Important Recommendations using a line such as: % This work consists of all files listed in manifest.txt. - + in that place. In the absence of an unequivocal list it might be impossible for the licensee to determine what is considered by you to comprise the Work and, in such a case, the licensee would be entitled to make reasonable conjectures as to which files comprise the Work. - |