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| 2 | The LaTeX Project Public License | ||
| 3 | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | ||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | LPPL Version 1.3c 2008-05-04 | ||
| 6 | |||
| 7 | Copyright 1999 2002-2008 LaTeX3 Project | ||
| 8 | Everyone is allowed to distribute verbatim copies of this | ||
| 9 | license document, but modification of it is not allowed. | ||
| 10 | |||
| 11 | |||
| 12 | PREAMBLE | ||
| 13 | ======== | ||
| 14 | |||
| 15 | The LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL) is the primary license under | ||
| 16 | which the LaTeX kernel and the base LaTeX packages are distributed. | ||
| 17 | |||
| 18 | You may use this license for any work of which you hold the copyright | ||
| 19 | and which you wish to distribute. This license may be particularly | ||
| 20 | suitable if your work is TeX-related (such as a LaTeX package), but | ||
| 21 | it is written in such a way that you can use it even if your work is | ||
| 22 | unrelated to TeX. | ||
| 23 | |||
| 24 | The section `WHETHER AND HOW TO DISTRIBUTE WORKS UNDER THIS LICENSE', | ||
| 25 | below, gives instructions, examples, and recommendations for authors | ||
| 26 | who are considering distributing their works under this license. | ||
| 27 | |||
| 28 | This license gives conditions under which a work may be distributed | ||
| 29 | and modified, as well as conditions under which modified versions of | ||
| 30 | that work may be distributed. | ||
| 31 | |||
| 32 | We, the LaTeX3 Project, believe that the conditions below give you | ||
| 33 | the freedom to make and distribute modified versions of your work | ||
| 34 | that conform with whatever technical specifications you wish while | ||
| 35 | maintaining the availability, integrity, and reliability of | ||
| 36 | that work. If you do not see how to achieve your goal while | ||
| 37 | meeting these conditions, then read the document `cfgguide.tex' | ||
| 38 | and `modguide.tex' in the base LaTeX distribution for suggestions. | ||
| 39 | |||
| 40 | |||
| 41 | DEFINITIONS | ||
| 42 | =========== | ||
| 43 | |||
| 44 | In this license document the following terms are used: | ||
| 45 | |||
| 46 | `Work' | ||
| 47 | Any work being distributed under this License. | ||
| 48 | |||
| 49 | `Derived Work' | ||
| 50 | Any work that under any applicable law is derived from the Work. | ||
| 51 | |||
| 52 | `Modification' | ||
| 53 | Any procedure that produces a Derived Work under any applicable | ||
| 54 | law -- for example, the production of a file containing an | ||
| 55 | original file associated with the Work or a significant portion of | ||
| 56 | such a file, either verbatim or with modifications and/or | ||
| 57 | translated into another language. | ||
| 58 | |||
| 59 | `Modify' | ||
| 60 | To apply any procedure that produces a Derived Work under any | ||
| 61 | applicable law. | ||
| 62 | |||
| 63 | `Distribution' | ||
| 64 | Making copies of the Work available from one person to another, in | ||
| 65 | whole or in part. Distribution includes (but is not limited to) | ||
| 66 | making any electronic components of the Work accessible by | ||
| 67 | file transfer protocols such as FTP or HTTP or by shared file | ||
| 68 | systems such as Sun's Network File System (NFS). | ||
| 69 | |||
| 70 | `Compiled Work' | ||
| 71 | A version of the Work that has been processed into a form where it | ||
| 72 | is directly usable on a computer system. This processing may | ||
| 73 | include using installation facilities provided by the Work, | ||
| 74 | transformations of the Work, copying of components of the Work, or | ||
| 75 | other activities. Note that modification of any installation | ||
| 76 | facilities provided by the Work constitutes modification of the Work. | ||
| 77 | |||
| 78 | `Current Maintainer' | ||
| 79 | A person or persons nominated as such within the Work. If there is | ||
| 80 | no such explicit nomination then it is the `Copyright Holder' under | ||
| 81 | any applicable law. | ||
| 82 | |||
| 83 | `Base Interpreter' | ||
| 84 | A program or process that is normally needed for running or | ||
| 85 | interpreting a part or the whole of the Work. | ||
| 86 | |||
| 87 | A Base Interpreter may depend on external components but these | ||
| 88 | are not considered part of the Base Interpreter provided that each | ||
| 89 | external component clearly identifies itself whenever it is used | ||
| 90 | interactively. Unless explicitly specified when applying the | ||
| 91 | license to the Work, the only applicable Base Interpreter is a | ||
| 92 | `LaTeX-Format' or in the case of files belonging to the | ||
| 93 | `LaTeX-format' a program implementing the `TeX language'. | ||
| 94 | |||
| 95 | |||
| 96 | |||
| 97 | CONDITIONS ON DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION | ||
| 98 | =========================================== | ||
| 99 | |||
| 100 | 1. Activities other than distribution and/or modification of the Work | ||
| 101 | are not covered by this license; they are outside its scope. In | ||
| 102 | particular, the act of running the Work is not restricted and no | ||
| 103 | requirements are made concerning any offers of support for the Work. | ||
| 104 | |||
| 105 | 2. You may distribute a complete, unmodified copy of the Work as you | ||
| 106 | received it. Distribution of only part of the Work is considered | ||
| 107 | modification of the Work, and no right to distribute such a Derived | ||
| 108 | Work may be assumed under the terms of this clause. | ||
| 109 | |||
| 110 | 3. You may distribute a Compiled Work that has been generated from a | ||
| 111 | complete, unmodified copy of the Work as distributed under Clause 2 | ||
| 112 | above, as long as that Compiled Work is distributed in such a way that | ||
| 113 | the recipients may install the Compiled Work on their system exactly | ||
| 114 | as it would have been installed if they generated a Compiled Work | ||
| 115 | directly from the Work. | ||
| 116 | |||
| 117 | 4. If you are the Current Maintainer of the Work, you may, without | ||
| 118 | restriction, modify the Work, thus creating a Derived Work. You may | ||
| 119 | also distribute the Derived Work without restriction, including | ||
| 120 | Compiled Works generated from the Derived Work. Derived Works | ||
| 121 | distributed in this manner by the Current Maintainer are considered to | ||
| 122 | be updated versions of the Work. | ||
| 123 | |||
| 124 | 5. If you are not the Current Maintainer of the Work, you may modify | ||
| 125 | your copy of the Work, thus creating a Derived Work based on the Work, | ||
| 126 | and compile this Derived Work, thus creating a Compiled Work based on | ||
| 127 | the Derived Work. | ||
| 128 | |||
| 129 | 6. If you are not the Current Maintainer of the Work, you may | ||
| 130 | distribute a Derived Work provided the following conditions are met | ||
| 131 | for every component of the Work unless that component clearly states | ||
| 132 | in the copyright notice that it is exempt from that condition. Only | ||
| 133 | the Current Maintainer is allowed to add such statements of exemption | ||
| 134 | to a component of the Work. | ||
| 135 | |||
| 136 | a. If a component of this Derived Work can be a direct replacement | ||
| 137 | for a component of the Work when that component is used with the | ||
| 138 | Base Interpreter, then, wherever this component of the Work | ||
| 139 | identifies itself to the user when used interactively with that | ||
| 140 | Base Interpreter, the replacement component of this Derived Work | ||
| 141 | clearly and unambiguously identifies itself as a modified version | ||
| 142 | of this component to the user when used interactively with that | ||
| 143 | Base Interpreter. | ||
| 144 | |||
| 145 | b. Every component of the Derived Work contains prominent notices | ||
| 146 | detailing the nature of the changes to that component, or a | ||
| 147 | prominent reference to another file that is distributed as part | ||
| 148 | of the Derived Work and that contains a complete and accurate log | ||
| 149 | of the changes. | ||
| 150 | |||
| 151 | c. No information in the Derived Work implies that any persons, | ||
| 152 | including (but not limited to) the authors of the original version | ||
| 153 | of the Work, provide any support, including (but not limited to) | ||
| 154 | the reporting and handling of errors, to recipients of the | ||
| 155 | Derived Work unless those persons have stated explicitly that | ||
| 156 | they do provide such support for the Derived Work. | ||
| 157 | |||
| 158 | d. You distribute at least one of the following with the Derived Work: | ||
| 159 | |||
| 160 | 1. A complete, unmodified copy of the Work; | ||
| 161 | if your distribution of a modified component is made by | ||
| 162 | offering access to copy the modified component from a | ||
| 163 | designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy | ||
| 164 | the Work from the same or some similar place meets this | ||
| 165 | condition, even though third parties are not compelled to | ||
| 166 | copy the Work along with the modified component; | ||
| 167 | |||
| 168 | 2. Information that is sufficient to obtain a complete, | ||
| 169 | unmodified copy of the Work. | ||
| 170 | |||
| 171 | 7. If you are not the Current Maintainer of the Work, you may | ||
| 172 | distribute a Compiled Work generated from a Derived Work, as long as | ||
| 173 | the Derived Work is distributed to all recipients of the Compiled | ||
| 174 | Work, and as long as the conditions of Clause 6, above, are met with | ||
| 175 | regard to the Derived Work. | ||
| 176 | |||
| 177 | 8. The conditions above are not intended to prohibit, and hence do not | ||
| 178 | apply to, the modification, by any method, of any component so that it | ||
| 179 | becomes identical to an updated version of that component of the Work as | ||
| 180 | it is distributed by the Current Maintainer under Clause 4, above. | ||
| 181 | |||
| 182 | 9. Distribution of the Work or any Derived Work in an alternative | ||
| 183 | format, where the Work or that Derived Work (in whole or in part) is | ||
| 184 | then produced by applying some process to that format, does not relax or | ||
| 185 | nullify any sections of this license as they pertain to the results of | ||
| 186 | applying that process. | ||
| 187 | |||
| 188 | 10. a. A Derived Work may be distributed under a different license | ||
| 189 | provided that license itself honors the conditions listed in | ||
| 190 | Clause 6 above, in regard to the Work, though it does not have | ||
| 191 | to honor the rest of the conditions in this license. | ||
| 192 | |||
| 193 | b. If a Derived Work is distributed under a different license, that | ||
| 194 | Derived Work must provide sufficient documentation as part of | ||
| 195 | itself to allow each recipient of that Derived Work to honor the | ||
| 196 | restrictions in Clause 6 above, concerning changes from the Work. | ||
| 197 | |||
| 198 | 11. This license places no restrictions on works that are unrelated to | ||
| 199 | the Work, nor does this license place any restrictions on aggregating | ||
| 200 | such works with the Work by any means. | ||
| 201 | |||
| 202 | 12. Nothing in this license is intended to, or may be used to, prevent | ||
| 203 | complete compliance by all parties with all applicable laws. | ||
| 204 | |||
| 205 | |||
| 206 | NO WARRANTY | ||
| 207 | =========== | ||
| 208 | |||
| 209 | There is no warranty for the Work. Except when otherwise stated in | ||
| 210 | writing, the Copyright Holder provides the Work `as is', without | ||
| 211 | warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not | ||
| 212 | limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a | ||
| 213 | particular purpose. The entire risk as to the quality and performance | ||
| 214 | of the Work is with you. Should the Work prove defective, you assume | ||
| 215 | the cost of all necessary servicing, repair, or correction. | ||
| 216 | |||
| 217 | In no event unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing | ||
| 218 | will The Copyright Holder, or any author named in the components of the | ||
| 219 | Work, or any other party who may distribute and/or modify the Work as | ||
| 220 | permitted above, be liable to you for damages, including any general, | ||
| 221 | special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of any use of | ||
| 222 | the Work or out of inability to use the Work (including, but not limited | ||
| 223 | to, loss of data, data being rendered inaccurate, or losses sustained by | ||
| 224 | anyone as a result of any failure of the Work to operate with any other | ||
| 225 | programs), even if the Copyright Holder or said author or said other | ||
| 226 | party has been advised of the possibility of such damages. | ||
| 227 | |||
| 228 | |||
| 229 | MAINTENANCE OF THE WORK | ||
| 230 | ======================= | ||
| 231 | |||
| 232 | The Work has the status `author-maintained' if the Copyright Holder | ||
| 233 | explicitly and prominently states near the primary copyright notice in | ||
| 234 | the Work that the Work can only be maintained by the Copyright Holder | ||
| 235 | or simply that it is `author-maintained'. | ||
| 236 | |||
| 237 | The Work has the status `maintained' if there is a Current Maintainer | ||
| 238 | who has indicated in the Work that they are willing to receive error | ||
| 239 | reports for the Work (for example, by supplying a valid e-mail | ||
| 240 | address). It is not required for the Current Maintainer to acknowledge | ||
| 241 | or act upon these error reports. | ||
| 242 | |||
| 243 | The Work changes from status `maintained' to `unmaintained' if there | ||
| 244 | is no Current Maintainer, or the person stated to be Current | ||
| 245 | Maintainer of the work cannot be reached through the indicated means | ||
| 246 | of communication for a period of six months, and there are no other | ||
| 247 | significant signs of active maintenance. | ||
| 248 | |||
| 249 | You can become the Current Maintainer of the Work by agreement with | ||
| 250 | any existing Current Maintainer to take over this role. | ||
| 251 | |||
| 252 | If the Work is unmaintained, you can become the Current Maintainer of | ||
| 253 | the Work through the following steps: | ||
| 254 | |||
| 255 | 1. Make a reasonable attempt to trace the Current Maintainer (and | ||
| 256 | the Copyright Holder, if the two differ) through the means of | ||
| 257 | an Internet or similar search. | ||
| 258 | |||
| 259 | 2. If this search is successful, then enquire whether the Work | ||
| 260 | is still maintained. | ||
| 261 | |||
| 262 | a. If it is being maintained, then ask the Current Maintainer | ||
| 263 | to update their communication data within one month. | ||
| 264 | |||
| 265 | b. If the search is unsuccessful or no action to resume active | ||
| 266 | maintenance is taken by the Current Maintainer, then announce | ||
| 267 | within the pertinent community your intention to take over | ||
| 268 | maintenance. (If the Work is a LaTeX work, this could be | ||
| 269 | done, for example, by posting to comp.text.tex.) | ||
| 270 | |||
| 271 | 3a. If the Current Maintainer is reachable and agrees to pass | ||
| 272 | maintenance of the Work to you, then this takes effect | ||
| 273 | immediately upon announcement. | ||
| 274 | |||
| 275 | b. If the Current Maintainer is not reachable and the Copyright | ||
| 276 | Holder agrees that maintenance of the Work be passed to you, | ||
| 277 | then this takes effect immediately upon announcement. | ||
| 278 | |||
| 279 | 4. If you make an `intention announcement' as described in 2b. above | ||
| 280 | and after three months your intention is challenged neither by | ||
| 281 | the Current Maintainer nor by the Copyright Holder nor by other | ||
| 282 | people, then you may arrange for the Work to be changed so as | ||
| 283 | to name you as the (new) Current Maintainer. | ||
| 284 | |||
| 285 | 5. If the previously unreachable Current Maintainer becomes | ||
| 286 | reachable once more within three months of a change completed | ||
| 287 | under the terms of 3b) or 4), then that Current Maintainer must | ||
| 288 | become or remain the Current Maintainer upon request provided | ||
| 289 | they then update their communication data within one month. | ||
| 290 | |||
| 291 | A change in the Current Maintainer does not, of itself, alter the fact | ||
| 292 | that the Work is distributed under the LPPL license. | ||
| 293 | |||
| 294 | If you become the Current Maintainer of the Work, you should | ||
| 295 | immediately provide, within the Work, a prominent and unambiguous | ||
| 296 | statement of your status as Current Maintainer. You should also | ||
| 297 | announce your new status to the same pertinent community as | ||
| 298 | in 2b) above. | ||
| 299 | |||
| 300 | |||
| 301 | WHETHER AND HOW TO DISTRIBUTE WORKS UNDER THIS LICENSE | ||
| 302 | ====================================================== | ||
| 303 | |||
| 304 | This section contains important instructions, examples, and | ||
| 305 | recommendations for authors who are considering distributing their | ||
| 306 | works under this license. These authors are addressed as `you' in | ||
| 307 | this section. | ||
| 308 | |||
| 309 | Choosing This License or Another License | ||
| 310 | ---------------------------------------- | ||
| 311 | |||
| 312 | If for any part of your work you want or need to use *distribution* | ||
| 313 | conditions that differ significantly from those in this license, then | ||
| 314 | do not refer to this license anywhere in your work but, instead, | ||
| 315 | distribute your work under a different license. You may use the text | ||
| 316 | of this license as a model for your own license, but your license | ||
| 317 | should not refer to the LPPL or otherwise give the impression that | ||
| 318 | your work is distributed under the LPPL. | ||
| 319 | |||
| 320 | The document `modguide.tex' in the base LaTeX distribution explains | ||
| 321 | the motivation behind the conditions of this license. It explains, | ||
| 322 | for example, why distributing LaTeX under the GNU General Public | ||
| 323 | License (GPL) was considered inappropriate. Even if your work is | ||
| 324 | unrelated to LaTeX, the discussion in `modguide.tex' may still be | ||
| 325 | relevant, and authors intending to distribute their works under any | ||
| 326 | license are encouraged to read it. | ||
| 327 | |||
| 328 | A Recommendation on Modification Without Distribution | ||
| 329 | ----------------------------------------------------- | ||
| 330 | |||
| 331 | It is wise never to modify a component of the Work, even for your own | ||
| 332 | personal use, without also meeting the above conditions for | ||
| 333 | distributing the modified component. While you might intend that such | ||
| 334 | modifications will never be distributed, often this will happen by | ||
| 335 | accident -- you may forget that you have modified that component; or | ||
| 336 | it may not occur to you when allowing others to access the modified | ||
| 337 | version that you are thus distributing it and violating the conditions | ||
| 338 | of this license in ways that could have legal implications and, worse, | ||
| 339 | cause problems for the community. It is therefore usually in your | ||
| 340 | best interest to keep your copy of the Work identical with the public | ||
| 341 | one. Many works provide ways to control the behavior of that work | ||
| 342 | without altering any of its licensed components. | ||
| 343 | |||
| 344 | How to Use This License | ||
| 345 | ----------------------- | ||
| 346 | |||
| 347 | To use this license, place in each of the components of your work both | ||
| 348 | an explicit copyright notice including your name and the year the work | ||
| 349 | was authored and/or last substantially modified. Include also a | ||
| 350 | statement that the distribution and/or modification of that | ||
| 351 | component is constrained by the conditions in this license. | ||
| 352 | |||
| 353 | Here is an example of such a notice and statement: | ||
| 354 | |||
| 355 | %% pig.dtx | ||
| 356 | %% Copyright 2005 M. Y. Name | ||
| 357 | % | ||
| 358 | % This work may be distributed and/or modified under the | ||
| 359 | % conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3 | ||
| 360 | % of this license or (at your option) any later version. | ||
| 361 | % The latest version of this license is in | ||
| 362 | % http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt | ||
| 363 | % and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX | ||
| 364 | % version 2005/12/01 or later. | ||
| 365 | % | ||
| 366 | % This work has the LPPL maintenance status `maintained'. | ||
| 367 | % | ||
| 368 | % The Current Maintainer of this work is M. Y. Name. | ||
| 369 | % | ||
| 370 | % This work consists of the files pig.dtx and pig.ins | ||
| 371 | % and the derived file pig.sty. | ||
| 372 | |||
| 373 | Given such a notice and statement in a file, the conditions | ||
| 374 | given in this license document would apply, with the `Work' referring | ||
| 375 | to the three files `pig.dtx', `pig.ins', and `pig.sty' (the last being | ||
| 376 | generated from `pig.dtx' using `pig.ins'), the `Base Interpreter' | ||
| 377 | referring to any `LaTeX-Format', and both `Copyright Holder' and | ||
| 378 | `Current Maintainer' referring to the person `M. Y. Name'. | ||
| 379 | |||
| 380 | If you do not want the Maintenance section of LPPL to apply to your | ||
| 381 | Work, change `maintained' above into `author-maintained'. | ||
| 382 | However, we recommend that you use `maintained', as the Maintenance | ||
| 383 | section was added in order to ensure that your Work remains useful to | ||
| 384 | the community even when you can no longer maintain and support it | ||
| 385 | yourself. | ||
| 386 | |||
| 387 | Derived Works That Are Not Replacements | ||
| 388 | --------------------------------------- | ||
| 389 | |||
| 390 | Several clauses of the LPPL specify means to provide reliability and | ||
| 391 | stability for the user community. They therefore concern themselves | ||
| 392 | with the case that a Derived Work is intended to be used as a | ||
| 393 | (compatible or incompatible) replacement of the original Work. If | ||
| 394 | this is not the case (e.g., if a few lines of code are reused for a | ||
| 395 | completely different task), then clauses 6b and 6d shall not apply. | ||
| 396 | |||
| 397 | |||
| 398 | Important Recommendations | ||
| 399 | ------------------------- | ||
| 400 | |||
| 401 | Defining What Constitutes the Work | ||
| 402 | |||
| 403 | The LPPL requires that distributions of the Work contain all the | ||
| 404 | files of the Work. It is therefore important that you provide a | ||
| 405 | way for the licensee to determine which files constitute the Work. | ||
| 406 | This could, for example, be achieved by explicitly listing all the | ||
| 407 | files of the Work near the copyright notice of each file or by | ||
| 408 | using a line such as: | ||
| 409 | |||
| 410 | % This work consists of all files listed in manifest.txt. | ||
| 411 | |||
| 412 | in that place. In the absence of an unequivocal list it might be | ||
| 413 | impossible for the licensee to determine what is considered by you | ||
| 414 | to comprise the Work and, in such a case, the licensee would be | ||
| 415 | entitled to make reasonable conjectures as to which files comprise | ||
| 416 | the Work. | ||
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