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

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From: Amanda Walker
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1991 00:22

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tower@gnu.ai.mit.edu writes:

   [about TeX]
   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

It seems to me that the TeX manual is actually somewhere in between.
The *source* to the manual is freely available, and is in fact
frequently used as performance benchmark.  The restrictions are
reproduction rights on printed copies of the manual.

Now, I realize that this is still not copyleft, but it is certainly
much more liberal than conventional software manuals...

Amanda Walker						      amanda@visix.com
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