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The LaTeX Project Public License

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LPPL Version 1.2 1999-09-03

Copyright 1999 LaTeX3 Project

Everyone is allowed to distribute verbatim copies of this license document,
but modification of it is not allowed.

PREAMBLE

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The LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL) is the license under which the base
LaTeX distribution is distributed.

You may use this license for any program that you have written and wish to
distribute. This license may be particularly suitable if your program is TeX-related
(such as a LaTeX package), but you may use it even if your program is unrelated
to TeX. The section `WHETHER AND HOW TO DISTRIBUTE PROGRAMS UNDER THIS LICENSE',
below, gives instructions, examples, and recommendations for authors who are
considering distributing their programs under this license.

In this license document, `The Program' refers to any program distributed
under this license.

This license gives conditions under which The Program may be distributed and
conditions under which modified versions of The Program may be distributed.
Individual files of The Program may bear supplementary and/or superseding
conditions on modification of themselves and on the distribution of modified
versions of themselves, but *no* file of The Program may bear supplementary
or superseding conditions on the distribution of an unmodified copy of the
file. A distributor wishing to distribute a complete, unmodified copy of The
Program therefore needs to check the conditions only in this license and nowhere
else.

Activities other than distribution and/or modification of The Program are
not covered by this license; they are outside its scope. In particular, the
act of running The Program is not restricted.

We, the LaTeX3 Project, believe that the conditions below give you the freedom
to make and distribute modified versions of The Program that conform with
whatever technical specifications you wish while maintaining the availability,
integrity, and reliability of The Program. If you do not see how to achieve
your goal while meeting these conditions, then read the document `cfgguide.tex'
in the base LaTeX distribution for suggestions.

CONDITIONS ON DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

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You may distribute a complete, unmodified copy of The Program. Distribution
of only part of The Program is not allowed.

You may not modify in any way a file of The Program that bears a legal notice
forbidding modification of that file.

You may distribute a modified file of The Program if, and only if, the following
eight conditions are met:

1. You must meet any additional conditions borne by the file on the distribution
of a modified version of the file as described below in the subsection `Additional
Conditions on Individual Files of The Program'.

2. If the file is a LaTeX software file, then you must meet any applicable
additional conditions on the distribution of a modified version of the file
that are described below in the subsection `Additional Conditions on LaTeX
Software Files'.

3. You must not distribute the modified file with the filename of the original
file.

4. In the modified file, you must acknowledge the authorship and name of the
original file, and the name (if any) of the program which contains it.

5. You must change any identification string in the file to indicate clearly
that the modified file is not part of The Program.

6. You must change any addresses in the modified file for the reporting of
errors in the file or in The Program generally to ensure that reports for
files no longer maintained by the original maintainers will be directed to
the maintainers of the modified files.

7. You must distribute the modified file under a license that forbids distribution
both of the modified file and of any files derived from the modified file
with the filename of the original file.

   8. You must do either (A) or (B):

(A) distribute a copy of The Program (that is, a complete, unmodified copy
of The Program) together with the modified file; if your distribution of the
modified file is made by offering access to copy the modified file from a
designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy The Program from
the same place meets this condition, even though third parties are not compelled
to copy The Program along with the modified file;

(B) provide to those who receive the modified file information that is sufficient
for them to obtain a copy of The Program; for example, you may provide a Uniform
Resource Locator (URL) for a site that you expect will provide them with a
copy of The Program free of charge (either the version from which your modification
is derived, or perhaps a later version).

Note that in the above, `distribution' of a file means making the file available
to others by any means. This includes, for instance, installing the file on
any machine in such a way that the file is accessible by users other than
yourself. `Modification' of a file means any procedure that produces a derivative
file under any applicable law -- that is, a file containing the original file
or a significant portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications and/or
translated into another language.

Changing the name of a file (other than as necessitated by the file conventions
of the target file systems) is considered to be a modification of the file.

The distribution conditions in this license do not have to be applied to files
that have been modified in accordance with the above conditions. Note, however,
that Condition 7. does apply to any such modified file.

The conditions above are not intended to prohibit, and hence do not apply
to, the updating, by any method, of a file so that it becomes identical to
the latest version of that file of The Program.

A Recommendation on Modification Without Distribution -----------------------------------------------------

It is wise never to modify a file of The Program, even for your own personal
use, without also meeting the above eight conditions for distributing the
modified file. While you might intend that such modified files will never
be distributed, often this will happen by accident -- you may forget that
you have modified the file; or it may not occur to you when allowing others
to access the modified file that you are thus distributing it and violating
the conditions of this license. It is usually in your best interest to keep
your copy of The Program identical with the public one. Many programs provide
ways to control the behavior of that program without altering its licensed
files.

Additional Conditions on Individual Files of The Program --------------------------------------------------------

An individual file of The Program may bear additional conditions that supplement
and/or supersede the conditions in this license if, and only if, such additional
conditions exclusively concern modification of the file or distribution of
a modified version of the file. The conditions on individual files of The
Program therefore may differ only with respect to the kind and extent of modification
of those files that is allowed, and with respect to the distribution of modified
versions of those files.

Additional Conditions on LaTeX Software Files

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If a file of The Program is intended to be used with LaTeX (that is, if it
is a LaTeX software file), then the following additional conditions, which
supplement and/or supersede the conditions above, apply to the file according
to its filename extension:

- You may not modify any file with filename extension `.ins' since these are
installation files containing the legal notices that are placed in the files
they generate.

- You may distribute modified versions of files with filename extension `.fd'
(LaTeX font definition files) under the standard conditions of the LPPL as
described above. You may also distribute such modified LaTeX font definition
files with their original names provided that:

(1) the only changes to the original files either enable use of available
fonts or prevent attempts to access unavailable fonts;

(2) you also distribute the original, unmodified files (TeX input paths can
be used to control which set of LaTeX font definition files is actually used
by TeX).

- You may distribute modified versions of files with filename extension `.cfg'
(configuration files) with their original names. The Program may (and usually
will) specify the range of commands that are allowed in a particular configuration
file.

Because of portability and exchangeability issues in LaTeX software, The LaTeX3
Project deprecates the distribution of modified versions of components of
LaTeX or of generally available contributed code for them, but such distribution
can meet the conditions of this license.

NO WARRANTY

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There is no warranty for The Program. Except when otherwise stated in writing,
The Copyright Holder provides The Program `as is', without warranty of any
kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied
warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The entire
risk as to the quality and performance of The Program is with you. Should
The Program prove defective, you assume the cost of all necessary servicing,
repair, or correction.

In no event unless agreed to in writing will The Copyright Holder, or any
author named in the files of The Program, or any other party who may distribute
and/or modify The Program as permitted above, be liable to you for damages,
including any general, special, incidental or consequential damages arising
out of any use of The Program or out of inability to use The Program (including,
but not limited to, loss of data, data being rendered inaccurate, or losses
sustained by anyone as a result of any failure of The Program to operate with
any other programs), even if The Copyright Holder or said author or said other
party has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

WHETHER AND HOW TO DISTRIBUTE PROGRAMS UNDER THIS LICENSE =========================================================

This section contains important instructions, examples, and recommendations
for authors who are considering distributing their programs under this license.
These authors are addressed as `you' in this section.

Choosing This License or Another License

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If for any part of your program you want or need to use *distribution* conditions
that differ from those in this license, then do not refer to this license
anywhere in your program but instead distribute your program under a different
license. You may use the text of this license as a model for your own license,
but your license should not refer to the LPPL or otherwise give the impression
that your program is distributed under the LPPL.

The document `modguide.tex' in the base LaTeX distribution explains the motivation
behind the conditions of this license. It explains, for example, why distributing
LaTeX under the GNU General Public License (GPL) was considered inappropriate.
Even if your program is unrelated to LaTeX, the discussion in `modguide.tex'
may still be relevant, and authors intending to distribute their programs
under any license are encouraged to read it.

How to Use This License

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To use this license, place in each of the files of your program both an explicit
copyright notice including your name and the year and also a statement that
the distribution and/or modification of the file is constrained by the conditions
in this license.

Here is an example of such a notice and statement:

%% pig.dtx

%% Copyright 2001 M. Y. Name

%

% This program may be distributed and/or modified under the

% conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.2

% of this license or (at your option) any later version.

% The latest version of this license is in

% http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt

% and version 1.2 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX

% version 1999/12/01 or later.

%

% This program consists of the files pig.dtx and pig.ins

Given such a notice and statement in a file, the conditions given in this
license document would apply, with `The Program' referring to the two files
`pig.dtx' and `pig.ins', and `The Copyright Holder' referring to the person
`M. Y. Name'.

Important Recommendations

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Defining What Constitutes The Program

The LPPL requires that distributions of The Program contain all the files
of The Program. It is therefore important that you provide a way for the licensee
to determine which files constitute The Program. This could, for example,
be achieved by explicitly listing all the files of The Program near the copyright
notice of each file or by using a line like

% This program consists of all files listed in manifest.txt.

in that place. In the absence of an unequivocal list it might be impossible
for the licensee to determine what is considered by you to comprise The Program.

Noting Exceptional Files If The Program contains any files bearing additional
conditions on modification, or on distribution of modified versions, of those
files (other than those listed in `Additional Conditions on LaTeX Software
Files'), then it is recommended that The Program contain a prominent file
that defines the exceptional conditions, and either lists the exceptional
files or defines one or more categories of exceptional files.

Files containing the text of a license (such as this file) are often examples
of files bearing more restrictive conditions on modification. LaTeX configuration
files (with filename extension `.cfg') are examples of files bearing less
restrictive conditions on the distribution of a modified version of the file.
The additional conditions on LaTeX software given above are examples of declaring
a category of files bearing exceptional additional conditions.