[XeTeX] Performance of ucharclasses

Vafa Khalighi vafaklg at gmail.com
Sun Oct 23 12:11:37 CEST 2011


Yes, firstly because it does not make the software free any more (not just
free in price but also free in modification, etc) and secondly LPPL never
discourage you from modifying the software.

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) <
P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk> wrote:

>
>
> Vafa Khalighi wrote:
>
>> No, the license of the package in not LPPL. In fact, it is non-free and
>> that is why it is not included in TeXLive. The README in "License" section
>> says:
>>
>> You
>>  may freely use this package, but you are discouraged from
>>  modifying this package and then redistributing it. Instead,
>>  please contact me (ideally on the XeTeX mailing list) and
>>  we can discuss the changes you wish to make. If they
>>  benefit everyone, they will be worked in as a new version.
>>
>
> Is "discouraged from" (or even "strongly discouraged from")
> actually inconsistent with the /requirements/ of LPPL (as
> opposed to the /spirit/ of LPPL) ?
>
> Philip Taylor
>
>
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