Fwd: License to distribute your arabtex package sought

[David Carlisle]

> for the same reason.  what the lppl doesn't do is provide a way to
> keep informed automatically -- actually, i'd like to see that become
> a "requested option", but i guess that's a vain hope.

widespread use of such a clause would kill a CD of collected works such
as texlive. If any potential redistributor had to individually contact
10, 100? 1000? individual authors to notify them that they planned to
stick the cd on a book say, then it will never happen.

David