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Subject: Re: TeX (Apple Payoff Blacklist...)
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Date: Thu, 29-Jan-87 16:21:32 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 29 16:21:32 1987
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Reply-To: bobc@tikal.UUCP (Bob Campbell)
Organization: Teltone Corp., Kirkland, WA
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Keywords: TeX Public Domain
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In article <653@uw-warp.UUCP> dennis@uw-warp.UUCP (Dennis Gentry) writes:
>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....

TeX is not exactly public domain, but it is very close.  The code is
free and you can do anything you want with it except that if you give
anyone a part of the source you must give them all of the source.
There are no general restrictions and what you can do with the TeX
program as generated by the source.  I feel that $600 is too much for
the general TeX program, but then that is not what they should be
charging for anyway.  The $600 also gives you the support tools to use
TeX as a application on the Mac.  $600 is I feel a little steep, and I
would like to see a version of TeX that runs under MPW as a tool (and
then a "TeX previewer" could also be written as a tool).  The reason
for using MPW is that it is a very (maybe not perfect) editor which
can easily be extended (via MPW tools).

Disclaimer: I have never seen TeXtures, or any of the other Mac ports
of TeX.  All my comments are based on the following note that is with
the distribution of TeX that I have access to.

*********************************************************************
The rules for copying are:

This tape contains TeX82, version 1.5.  The original copy was written
on Wed Jan 8 09:53:10 PST 1986

This file is ./tex82/COPYING.POLICY

[several reasons for the policy... Deleted to save space]

Our requirements for redistributed copies are therefore as follows:

1.  Copies must be complete.  All files appearing on this tape must
also be provided on the copy.  If any changes have been made to any of
the files, these changes must be identified in a separate notice.  A
complete list of all files on this tape is found at the end of this
notice.  

2.  The file containing this notice (./tex82/COPYING.POLICY), the file
./tex82/README, and the file ./tex82/SCORE-README must be included,
unchanged, in all copies.  

3.  Sites receiving copies from you must be made aware of the copyright
restrictions on parts of the distribution.  The TeX source of the TeXBook 
is included in the distribution.  Since it is copyrighted by the American
Mathematical Society (1983) and has been published by Addison-Wesley,
you may not reproduce the TeXbook in any way.  The source is
intended to be used only to help you test your TeX port.  

4.  You may not charge a fee for making the copy.

Relevant addresses are as follows:

                     (Unix TeX Site Coordinators)
	Richard Furuta			Pierre MacKay
	Computer Science		Computer Science, FR-35
	University of Maryland		University of Washington
	College Park, MD 20740		Seattle, WA  98195

                          (TeX Users Group)
		TeX Users Group
		c/o American Mathematical Society
		P.O. Box 6248
		Providence, Rhode Island  02940
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Bob Campbell
Teltone Corporation		18520 - 66th AVE NE
P.O. Box 657			Seattle, WA 98155
Kirkland, WA 98033

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