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From: gilmore@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Scott Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Which dvi->PS driver is best for including PostScript?
Summary: Copyright?  So what?
Keywords: dvips, TeX, PostScript, copyright
Message-ID: <4826@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Date: 27 Oct 89 17:18:44 GMT
References: <958@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> <5255@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Reply-To: gilmore@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Scott Gilmore)
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In article <5255@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) writes:
>From article <958@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu>, by verber@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Mark A. Verber):
>" ...
>" (vii) dvips by Tomas Rokicki.  from labrea.stanford.edu in pub directory.
>
>Problem: It's copyrighted.
>				Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu

So what?  It's still free!  Just because Rokicki doesn't want anyone to rip-off
his code and claim it (or even sell it) for their own is no reason to condemn
it.  In fact, it makes perfect sense to me.  It's an excellent program and has 
been rigorously updated to keep up with the latest technology.  (Now if only
someone could make a fully-functional VMS port of it!  A previously mentioned
VMS port from Miami chokes on embedded Mac-based postscript files included with
psfig.)

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Scott Gilmore                                               Research Assistant
University of Delaware                              gilmore@vax1.acs.udel.edu
Center for Composite Materials                      gilmore@oscar.ccm.udel.edu
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering                     gilmore@minnie.me.udel.edu
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