Re: GNU view of TeX Users Group (TUG): "information hoarders"?

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From: Loren J. Rittle
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1991 09:16

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In article <9110140226.AA29242@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu> tower@prep.ai.mit.edu writes:

<Text about TeX program source code being freely available, but 
 TeX source to The TeX book manual not being available. REMOVED>

>Just for the record (and a few months late), the GNU Project does NOT
>approve of this policy.  The source code of manuals should be
>copylefted, jsut as the source code of programs.
>
>thanx -len

  Just for the record, the TeX source to the TeXbook manual is freely
available...  It may not be well known, thus the reason for this post.
The only restriction is that it may not be printed (or even run through
TeX).  [DON'T write me asking for a copy!]  I will point out that following
Len's logic, this still would not be agreeable to the GNU Project:  The
manual's source can't be changed or used and redistributed as per the
GNU copyleft.

Loren
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Subject: Re: GNU view of TeX Users Group (TUG): "information hoarders"?
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