www/licenses license-list.html

[Brett Smith]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Brett Smith <brett>     10/10/18 16:20:10

Modified files:
        licenses       : license-list.html 

Log message:
        Add clarifying paragraph to LPPL explanation, mostly from RMS.
        
        Even though it is possible to modify LPPL-covered works in such a way
        that they can no longer be considered free, that does not mean that
        the original license should be considered nonfree too.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/licenses/license-list.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.273&r2=1.274

Patches:
Index: license-list.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/licenses/license-list.html,v
retrieving revision 1.273
retrieving revision 1.274
diff -u -b -r1.273 -r1.274
--- license-list.html   9 Aug 2010 15:40:25 -0000       1.273
+++ license-list.html   18 Oct 2010 16:20:00 -0000      1.274
@@ -842,6 +842,16 @@
 requirement is merely annoying; without the facility, the same
 requirement would be a serious obstacle, and we would have to conclude
 it makes the program non-free.</p>
+
+<p>This condition may cause trouble with some major modifications.
+For example, if you wanted to port an LPPL-covered work to another
+system that lacked a similar a remapping facility, but still required
+users to request this file by name, you would need to implement a
+remapping facility too to keep this software free.  That would be a
+nuisance, but the fact that a license would make code nonfree if
+transplanted into a very different context does not make it nonfree in
+the original context.</p>
+
 <p>The LPPL says that some files, in certain versions of LaTeX, may have
 additional restrictions, which could render them non-free.  For this
 reason, it may take some careful checking to produce a version of
@@ -1790,7 +1800,7 @@
   <p>
     Updated:
     <!-- timestamp start -->
-    $Date: 2010/08/09 15:40:25 $
+    $Date: 2010/10/18 16:20:00 $
     <!-- timestamp end -->
   </p>
 </div>