Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!hoptoad!ptsfa!ames!rutgers!clyde!cbosgd!mandrill!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,misc.legal,alt.config Subject: Re: Copyright status of Ctex and Common-Tex: whose copyright ??? Message-ID: <4760@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Sun, 27-Sep-87 20:14:08 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.4760 Posted: Sun Sep 27 20:14:08 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 29-Sep-87 00:46:17 EDT References: <167@yetti.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sys.atari.st Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 32 Xref: hoptoad comp.sources.d:1341 misc.legal:2604 alt.config:67 As quoted from <167@yetti.UUCP> by oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit): +--------------- | % This program is copyright (C) 1982 by D. E. Knuth; all rights are reserved. | % Copying of this file is authorized only if (1) you are D. E. Knuth, or if | % (2) you make absolutely no changes to your copy. (The WEB system provides | % for alterations via an auxiliary file; the master file should stay intact.) | | One lawyer, Jordan J. Breslow, did address the issue of "derivative works" | in his most enlightening paper [may be found under the doc directory of news | 2.11 distribution]. He indicates that the translation of, say a copyrighted | COBOL program to BASIC would be the infringement of the copyright owner's | exclusive right to make derivative works. +--------------- As I read this, this means that I cannot get a copy of TeX from the U. of Washington (presumably the original Pascal version straqight from Don Knuth) and run it through p2c, even for my own use. Is this correct? Must I either (a) try to find a Pascal compiler for my 3B1 (ha ha good luck sucker) or (b) be stuck with nroff for the rest of my life (AAAAAARRRRGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!)? Or is Knuth willing to "authorize" a C translation and right to port (i.e. from the inevitable BSD-only first version to my System V)? Or am I just plain screwed? -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc {{harvard,mit-eddie}!necntc,well!hoptoad,sun!mandrill!hal}!ncoast!allbery ARPA: necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.harvard.edu Fido: 157/502 MCI: BALLBERY <> "Mummy, what's an opinion?"