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Article #6541Re: Status of TeX
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Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1989 21:18
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1989 21:18
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In article <2520@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk> steve@cs.hw.ac.uk (Steven Salvini) writes: > >I recently down-loaded a copy of DOSTEX and having read the "COPYING" >information file I'm still a little unclear as to the status of this program. >Simply, is it public domain/shareware or what? I don't see how it could be. (I know nothing about DOSTEX in particular.) TeX is copyrighted by the American Mathematical Society, and that should protect derivative works and all that as well. Anybody have any information (not ideas) on the issue of derivatives of TeX and the AMS copyright? John Lacey Ohio Wesleyan University BITnet: jjlacey@owucmcn Summer address: epdx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!vax5!33609796 From: 33609796@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Status of TeX Keywords: TeX - is it PD? Message-ID: <18780@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> Date: 11 Jun 89 21:18:53 GMT References: <2520@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk> Sender: news@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU Reply-To: epdx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (John Lacey) Organization: Cornell Information Technologies, Ithaca NY Lines: 16