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by thangalin 105 days ago
> 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 community.

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I guess it's not terribly surprising that Hans wanted to avoid talking about licenses :)