Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nbires!hao!boulder!sunybcs!rutgers!iuvax!bsu-cs!dhesi
From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Copyright status of Ctex and Common-Tex: whose copyright ???
Message-ID: <1187@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 21:44:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.1187
Posted: Mon Sep 28 21:44:44 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 30-Sep-87 03:55:20 EDT
References: <167@yetti.UUCP> <4760@ncoast.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
Lines: 18

In article <4760@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes:
<<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.)
<
<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!!!!!!!!!!!!)?

Federal copyright law explicitly permits the modification of software
as an essential step in using the software.
-- 
Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi