[texhax] shear transform

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2011-05-18 at 18:16:04 -0400, Peter Davis wrote:

 > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
 > 
 > >    Should it not say explicitly "These parts are under my licence; ...
 > >
 > > Sure, I agree that it would be clearer if it said that.
 > >
 > If I sell someone a house, and I neglect to mention that some of
 > the lumber used in framing actually belongs to someone else, I
 > think I am liable for any consequences, not the person who bought
 > the house.  Basically, I represented the house as being for sale,
 > in the same way this SIL license represents XeTeX as being
 > redistributable.

XeTeX is redistributable.

 > Again, I'm not a lawyer, so this is just my common sense
 > interpretation.
 > 
 > Also, trying to trace the provenance of every library that may be
 > used, and every library that those libraries depend on, etc., seems
 > very close to impossible.

If a particular program has a less restrictive license than the
libraries it uses, you can at least replace the libraries with your
own code and benefit from the less restrictive license of the main
program.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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