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Subject: Re: Status of TeX
Keywords: TeX - is it PD?
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Date: 11 Jun 89 21:18:53 GMT
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Reply-To: epdx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu  (John Lacey)
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In article <2520@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk> steve@cs.hw.ac.uk (Steven Salvini) writes:
>
>I recently down-loaded a copy of DOSTEX and having read the "COPYING"
>information file I'm still a little unclear as to the status of this program.
>Simply, is it public domain/shareware or what?

I don't see how it could be.  (I know nothing about DOSTEX in particular.)
TeX is copyrighted by the American Mathematical Society, and that should 
protect derivative works and all that as well.  Anybody have any information
(not ideas) on the issue of derivatives of TeX and the AMS copyright?

John Lacey
Ohio Wesleyan University
BITnet: jjlacey@owucmcn

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