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Re: What is the LaTeX license???

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From: William LeFebvre
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1989 16:27
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In article <3561@uwovax.uwo.ca> 2014_5001@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
>I can grab latex.tex from our mainframe, however I do not know whether
>it is public domain, or what.
>
>Could someone enlighten me as to the licensing of LaTeX?

LaTeX is freely redistributable, but it is copyrighted (so it's not
public domain).


		William LeFebvre
		Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
		Northwestern University
		<phil@eecs.nwu.edu>
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From: phil@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre)
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Subject: Re: What is the LaTeX license???
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