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From: dennis@uw-warp.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Apple Payoff Blacklist Requested/Look and Feel of the 8010
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Date: Thu, 29-Jan-87 03:03:36 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 29 03:03:36 1987
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Summary: TeX is not exactly public domain.
Xref: watmath comp.sys.ibm.pc:1264 comp.sys.mac:1031

In article <1600@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter) writes:
> ha! ha! ha!
...
> P.S. If you are so hung up about finding someone to be angry with why
> don't you yell at addison wesley. They're charging $600 a copy for the
> mac version of TeX, a public domain program. No site lisencing either.
>  Smooth guys real smooth. To be fair, it isn't really AW's fault they're
> only distributing it, it the programs authors who put on the limitations. 

I don't think TeX is public domain.  And I don't think there are
multiple authors, at least not for the single program "TeX," which was
written by Donald E. Knuth.  Even TeX were public domain, the part of
TeX that Addison-Wesley is charging for is NOT the public domain part.
In fact, as far as I can tell, the TeX source code (tex.web) is
copyrighted by Donald E. Knuth, and has some rather explicit but very
reasonable limitations on who may copy it.  The part that AW is
(reasonably or not) charging for is the task of porting TeX to the
Mac, and for distributing it (which does cost something, but nothing
like $600).

In any case, you are free to not pay AW $600, and do your own port
to the Mac.  I will even send you a copy of TEX.WEB and other TEX
sources if you will cover my costs of doing so (say, $30 for a 9-track
tape).  TeX is not an easy program to cram onto a micro.  By the way,
I believe AW does offer site licensing for the PC, since the University
of Washington has a PC TeX site license.

Dennis.
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