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From: MLY@MIT-MC.ARPA
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Subject: Re: How many copies would YOU buy?
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Date: Fri, 19-Jul-85 13:06:00 EDT
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From: Richard Mlynarik <MLY@MIT-MC.ARPA>
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   My suggestion for the student problem is to have the university
   make cheap copies for the students.  Since the code is public, I
   would assume the manual would not have a copyright either.  This
   makes it easier for local copies to be made.  (I think you can
   make copies for classwork anyway.)  So why not sell the manuals
   for a reasonable price for most people, and then those places
   with a heart can make cheap copies available to their students.
   The only suggestion I have is to make a loose leaf version
   available for those places who are going to make copies so save
   copying hassles but that is fairly minor.

   Perry
   pedz@ctvax

Everybody is free to make copies of the manual --- the question is
what the cost of manuals printed and shipped by RMS should be.

The manual, like the code, IS copyrighted, so that the sort of
commercial slime who have been so willing to illustrate their
small-mindedness via this newsgroup don't try to porn it off as
theirs.

The following is the copyright notice from the manual source, which is
now distributed with every copy of GNU Emacs.

All you need is TeX (another wonderful free program) and a laser
printer (not-quite-so-cheap.)  Botex is a TeX macro package which RMS wrote.
Printer output is loose-leaf. (I just got a copy of the manual by
running our Dover's output though a photocopier)

----------------------------------------------------------------------

\input botex

@c Copyright (C) 1985 Richard M. Stallman.

@ignore
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
are preserved on all copies.

Permission is granted to process this file through Tex and print the
results, provided the printed document carries copying permission
notice identical to this one except for the removal of this paragraph
(this paragraph not being relevant to the printed manual).

Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of
this manual under the conditions in the preceding paragraph,
provided that the section entitled ``The GNU Manifesto''
is included exactly as in the original, and provided that
the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of
a permission notice identical to this one.

Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual
into another language, provided that the section entitled ``The GNU
Manifesto'' is included, either in English exactly
as in the original, or in a translation approved by the author.
@end ignore