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Post by gucci-on-fleek » Sat, Mar 07, 2026, 10:20 PM UTC

thangalin wrote: post #70

gucci-on-fleek wrote: post #69

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> A greenfield Java implementation with an MIT license would have been useful[2] for rendering TeX inside of my desktop Markdown editor[3]. Instead, I had to rename all the Java source files to abide by the NTSPL license terms (or GPLv2, which is viral). The source files make it look like DANTE owns the copyright, so you could try asking them to relicence it. Both Philip Taylor and Hans Hagen were involved in the lea…

> then DANTE would hopefully agree to relicence it. In Feb 2023, when I emailed Hans about changing licenses, he wrote back: > We decided to stick with the GNU (GLP) license. It's not like anyone is going to check in detail what happens with NTS after all these years. We just wanted to add the option for GPLv2. We're not going into endless debates about licences, which are always a sensitive topic in the tex communit…

Post by high_priest » Sun, Mar 08, 2026, 5:36 PM UTC

kkfx wrote: post #25

Personally I use LaTeX for anything I have to write as pdf, I understand many critics but... So far is The Tool to makes good typesetting. PostScript can do nearly the same at a harder effort for the user, Typist can't match, others are just LaTeX wrappers or can't deliver anything decent. The problem is that today we have a massive gap in development: there was a time when high-quality FLOSS development existed, fol…