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Subject: Re: [rms@gnu.org: Re: can normal programs be LGPL'ed?]
From: Roberto Alsina <ralsina () unl ! edu ! ar>
Date: 1998-12-14 13:09:58
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On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Raul Miller wrote:
> Kevin Forge <forgeltd@usa.net> wrote:
> > What dose the Tex license say ? ( I think that's the one )
>
> That's an interesting one.
>
> Basically, you can call anything TeX if it passes the validation suite.
> There's also a reference implementation which, if you modify, you can
> no longer claim that it's the reference implementation [you have to
> rename it]. Finally, there's a font in the reference implementation that
> is restricted rather strongly (if I recall correctly you lose the rights
> to use the font if it's not being used in the reference implementation).
You forgot to mention that you can't distribute a modified version of
TeX's source file (tex.web?), but you can distribute a patch to it (patch
to be applied by some weird mechanism)
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