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Exactly this issue of "you're free to make changes but please don't use the same name" keeps cropping up again and again -- take a look at the case of TeX/LaTeX
by svat 7y ago
Exactly this issue of "you're free to make changes but please don't use the same name" keeps cropping up again and again -- take a look at the case of TeX/LaTeX: https://www.latex-project.org/publications/2011-FMi-TUB-tb100mittbach-lppl-history.pdf https://www.latex-project.org/publications/2011-FMi-TUB-tb10... ("Reflections on the history of the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL)", by Frank Mittelbach, leading the LaTeX project since 1989.)
I think it is reasonable for certain kinds of software to have an expectation that users get the same results anywhere they use software by that name, and (therefore) that incompatible changes will not be distributed under the same name. Whether (1) that applies to Rust, and (2) that makes it non-free software, is the question here.