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  1. The LaTeX Project Public License
  2. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
  3. LPPL Version 1.3c 2008-05-04
  4. Copyright 1999 2002-2008 LaTeX3 Project
  5. Everyone is allowed to distribute verbatim copies of this
  6. license document, but modification of it is not allowed.
  7. PREAMBLE
  8. ========
  9. The LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL) is the primary license under
  10. which the LaTeX kernel and the base LaTeX packages are distributed.
  11. You may use this license for any work of which you hold the copyright
  12. and which you wish to distribute. This license may be particularly
  13. suitable if your work is TeX-related (such as a LaTeX package), but
  14. it is written in such a way that you can use it even if your work is
  15. unrelated to TeX.
  16. The section `WHETHER AND HOW TO DISTRIBUTE WORKS UNDER THIS LICENSE',
  17. below, gives instructions, examples, and recommendations for authors
  18. who are considering distributing their works under this license.
  19. This license gives conditions under which a work may be distributed
  20. and modified, as well as conditions under which modified versions of
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  30. ===========
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  72. CONDITIONS ON DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
  73. ===========================================
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  179. MAINTENANCE OF THE WORK
  180. =======================
  181. The Work has the status `author-maintained' if the Copyright Holder
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  191. is no Current Maintainer, or the person stated to be Current
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  194. significant signs of active maintenance.
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  196. any existing Current Maintainer to take over this role.
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  208. within the pertinent community your intention to take over
  209. maintenance. (If the Work is a LaTeX work, this could be
  210. done, for example, by posting to comp.text.tex.)
  211. 3a. If the Current Maintainer is reachable and agrees to pass
  212. maintenance of the Work to you, then this takes effect
  213. immediately upon announcement.
  214. b. If the Current Maintainer is not reachable and the Copyright
  215. Holder agrees that maintenance of the Work be passed to you,
  216. then this takes effect immediately upon announcement.
  217. 4. If you make an `intention announcement' as described in 2b. above
  218. and after three months your intention is challenged neither by
  219. the Current Maintainer nor by the Copyright Holder nor by other
  220. people, then you may arrange for the Work to be changed so as
  221. to name you as the (new) Current Maintainer.
  222. 5. If the previously unreachable Current Maintainer becomes
  223. reachable once more within three months of a change completed
  224. under the terms of 3b) or 4), then that Current Maintainer must
  225. become or remain the Current Maintainer upon request provided
  226. they then update their communication data within one month.
  227. A change in the Current Maintainer does not, of itself, alter the fact
  228. that the Work is distributed under the LPPL license.
  229. If you become the Current Maintainer of the Work, you should
  230. immediately provide, within the Work, a prominent and unambiguous
  231. statement of your status as Current Maintainer. You should also
  232. announce your new status to the same pertinent community as
  233. in 2b) above.
  234. WHETHER AND HOW TO DISTRIBUTE WORKS UNDER THIS LICENSE
  235. ======================================================
  236. This section contains important instructions, examples, and
  237. recommendations for authors who are considering distributing their
  238. works under this license. These authors are addressed as `you' in
  239. this section.
  240. Choosing This License or Another License
  241. ----------------------------------------
  242. If for any part of your work you want or need to use *distribution*
  243. conditions that differ significantly from those in this license, then
  244. do not refer to this license anywhere in your work but, instead,
  245. distribute your work under a different license. You may use the text
  246. of this license as a model for your own license, but your license
  247. should not refer to the LPPL or otherwise give the impression that
  248. your work is distributed under the LPPL.
  249. The document `modguide.tex' in the base LaTeX distribution explains
  250. the motivation behind the conditions of this license. It explains,
  251. for example, why distributing LaTeX under the GNU General Public
  252. License (GPL) was considered inappropriate. Even if your work is
  253. unrelated to LaTeX, the discussion in `modguide.tex' may still be
  254. relevant, and authors intending to distribute their works under any
  255. license are encouraged to read it.
  256. A Recommendation on Modification Without Distribution
  257. -----------------------------------------------------
  258. It is wise never to modify a component of the Work, even for your own
  259. personal use, without also meeting the above conditions for
  260. distributing the modified component. While you might intend that such
  261. modifications will never be distributed, often this will happen by
  262. accident -- you may forget that you have modified that component; or
  263. it may not occur to you when allowing others to access the modified
  264. version that you are thus distributing it and violating the conditions
  265. of this license in ways that could have legal implications and, worse,
  266. cause problems for the community. It is therefore usually in your
  267. best interest to keep your copy of the Work identical with the public
  268. one. Many works provide ways to control the behavior of that work
  269. without altering any of its licensed components.
  270. How to Use This License
  271. -----------------------
  272. To use this license, place in each of the components of your work both
  273. an explicit copyright notice including your name and the year the work
  274. was authored and/or last substantially modified. Include also a
  275. statement that the distribution and/or modification of that
  276. component is constrained by the conditions in this license.
  277. Here is an example of such a notice and statement:
  278. %% pig.dtx
  279. %% Copyright 2005 M. Y. Name
  280. %
  281. % This work may be distributed and/or modified under the
  282. % conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
  283. % of this license or (at your option) any later version.
  284. % The latest version of this license is in
  285. % http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
  286. % and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX
  287. % version 2005/12/01 or later.
  288. %
  289. % This work has the LPPL maintenance status `maintained'.
  290. %
  291. % The Current Maintainer of this work is M. Y. Name.
  292. %
  293. % This work consists of the files pig.dtx and pig.ins
  294. % and the derived file pig.sty.
  295. Given such a notice and statement in a file, the conditions
  296. given in this license document would apply, with the `Work' referring
  297. to the three files `pig.dtx', `pig.ins', and `pig.sty' (the last being
  298. generated from `pig.dtx' using `pig.ins'), the `Base Interpreter'
  299. referring to any `LaTeX-Format', and both `Copyright Holder' and
  300. `Current Maintainer' referring to the person `M. Y. Name'.
  301. If you do not want the Maintenance section of LPPL to apply to your
  302. Work, change `maintained' above into `author-maintained'.
  303. However, we recommend that you use `maintained', as the Maintenance
  304. section was added in order to ensure that your Work remains useful to
  305. the community even when you can no longer maintain and support it
  306. yourself.
  307. Derived Works That Are Not Replacements
  308. ---------------------------------------
  309. Several clauses of the LPPL specify means to provide reliability and
  310. stability for the user community. They therefore concern themselves
  311. with the case that a Derived Work is intended to be used as a
  312. (compatible or incompatible) replacement of the original Work. If
  313. this is not the case (e.g., if a few lines of code are reused for a
  314. completely different task), then clauses 6b and 6d shall not apply.
  315. Important Recommendations
  316. -------------------------
  317. Defining What Constitutes the Work
  318. The LPPL requires that distributions of the Work contain all the
  319. files of the Work. It is therefore important that you provide a
  320. way for the licensee to determine which files constitute the Work.
  321. This could, for example, be achieved by explicitly listing all the
  322. files of the Work near the copyright notice of each file or by
  323. using a line such as:
  324. % This work consists of all files listed in manifest.txt.
  325. in that place. In the absence of an unequivocal list it might be
  326. impossible for the licensee to determine what is considered by you
  327. to comprise the Work and, in such a case, the licensee would be
  328. entitled to make reasonable conjectures as to which files comprise
  329. the Work.