[XeTeX] Performance of ucharclasses

Tobias Schoel liesdiedatei at googlemail.com
Sun Oct 23 16:18:09 CEST 2011


I'm German, so I have neither the linguistic nor the judicial 
background. Alas, I can add my mustard (German Saying):

Discouraged is not the same as prohibited. So the license does not 
prohibit redistributing it in a modified version. But in most countries 
this doesn't matter, as copyright laws prohibit these actions.

Besides, I also wouldn't do, if it was allowed. Who knows, what methods 
the author employs in order to enforce the “discouragement”? ;-)

ciao

Toscho

Am 23.10.2011 12:48, schrieb Vafa Khalighi:
> I can not comment on the difference between "discouraged" and
> "prohibited" since I am Persian not British but certainly if I am
> "discouraged from modifying a package", I feel that "I am  prohibited
> from modifying that package".
>
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
> <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk <mailto:P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     Vafa Khalighi wrote:
>
>         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.
>
>
>     I don't think you are understanding my question, Vafa : I am
>     not querying whether they are inconsistent in spirit -- which
>     clearly they are -- but in terms of actual requirements.  Since
>     you are only "discouraged from" and not "prohibited from"
>     making changes, I believe that a court of law would find that
>     there is no actual inconsistency in practice.
>
>
>     Philip Taylor
>
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