[tex-live] babel's greek nonfree

[Apostolos Syropoulos]

On 6 Oct 2002, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

> 
> > Oh! That explains why Sun had postponed Solaris 9 x86: they were busy
> > figuring out whether they can include Open Office in Solaris 9 x86:-) 
> 
> from what I could gather, Sun dont regard x86 as strategic; they
> are content to let Linux have that part of the empire.

Well, you are wrong because last Friday Sun announced their new plans...
Linux is not a big priority for Sun, after all there is always
Microsoft Linux: http://www.mslinux.org/
  
> so you say now. what about your heirs? if you are run over by a bus
> tomorrow, perhaps your family will find this possible source
> of revenue and start issuing lawsuits...

Do you want me to make a legal statement?

> more to the point, if this stays in, what if I change my own copyright
> to say  "no-one with the surname Patel can use it"? do you want that
> restriction to be distributed?

I would say: no problem! After all, you are the one who makes this CD
and you are entitled to have any license you like. You don't want to
give to Patels or even to Greeks, just do it. Big publishers around
the world respect the work many TeX people have done and they have
shown that in various ways, but that particular publisher is
too arrogant! But, since you people don't understand this I will remove
the restriction. 
A.S.

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