Dear Norbert, already by uploading to CTAN and in the public announcements (of CTAN, e.g. on usenet) it was made clear that the package is under the lppl. As for all of my other LaTeX packages on CTAN (varindex, toolbox, guitar, ushort, ziffer), there is no detailed license within the file, since I considered the lppl clear from the context where the packages were published. The sentence
> You may copy this package freely, as long as you distribute only > unmodified and complete versions. is meant to emphasize that part of the lppl which IMHO is most important for most users. I admit that an explicit reference to the lppl in each file itself would have been clearer (instead of relying on the text of the public announcement). But to upload new versions of several years old packages without any actual change besides eliminating an unclear formulation on a non-technical issue appears rather strange to me. I hope that you agree that we can avoid this unnecessary work for the CTAN maintainer, myself, and all other people who would install the new versions (e.g. because they notice a changed filesize/timestamp) and are then disappointed because they actually have no changed package. Sincerely Martin Väth
