home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- DosTeX COPYING POLICY
-
- The redistribution policy for DosTeX is similiar to the Unix Tex
- distribution:
-
- Is it proper for a DosTeX recipient to give DosTeX to other sites?
-
- It is to the advantage of a site to get the distribution from us rather
- than from another site. There are three reasons for this. First, when
- a site requests the distribution from us, we have a record of who has
- the software. We are therefore able to contact them if we discover a
- major bug or to announce new versions of the software or the macro
- packages (this, incidentally, is also an excellent reason for every
- site to join the TeX Users' Group). Stanford receives
- a few telephone calls each week from people with out of date
- versions of TeX which have developed problems. Since these people
- have been out of touch with the more recent TeX developments, they've
- been unaware of the previous detection and resolution of their
- problems. Second, when a site contacts us for the DosTeX floppies,
- they then know who to contact to report any problems they may run into.
- Third, a site receiving floppies from us knows that they are
- receiving a complete distribution.
-
- On the other hand, it is undesirable and unnecessary to
- require that multiple computers at the same location each request a
- separate copy of the distribution, particularly when the same
- individual is responsible for installing and maintaining TeX on each
- of these machines. Additionally, our understanding of Stanford's
- intentions is that the software is available to be freely
- redistributed and that the copyright notices appearing on some of the
- software are intended to prohibit misrepresentation of modified
- versions of the software (as being, for example, TeX) not to restrict
- distribution.
-
- Our requirements for redistributed copies are therefore as follows:
-
- 1. Copies must be complete and unmodified. All floppies must be
- included and every file on each floppy must also be provided on the
- copies. A complete list of all files in this distribution
- is found at the end of this notice.
-
- 2. You may not charge a fee for making the copy.
-
- READ ME 10266
- POOLFILE ARC 13769
- DVIEPS ARC 59567
- INSTALL EXE 15638
- XARC COM 12242
- COPYING DOC 2567
- GENERAL DOC 1534
- TFM ARC 82820
-
- TEXEXE ARC 301658
-
- 346 ARC 83279
- 240 ARC 104867
- 315 ARC 77275
-
- INPUTS1 ARC 216157
- 288 ARC 123078
-
- 263 ARC 65340
- 379 ARC 90893
- DVI2HERC ARC 28842
-
- INPUTS2 ARC 361804
-
-
-