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- LaTeX2e Copyright, Warranty and Distribution Restrictions
-
- 18 June 1995
-
-
- COPYRIGHT
- =========
-
- This distribution is Copyright 1993-1995 the LaTeX3 project and the
- individual authors:
-
- Leslie Lamport
- Johannes Braams
- David Carlisle
- Alan Jeffrey
- Frank Mittelbach
- Chris Rowley
- Rainer Schoepf
-
- All rights reserved.
-
- The individual packages may bear additional copyright notices which
- supersede this general copyright notice.
-
-
- WARRANTY
- ========
-
- There is no warranty for LaTeX2e, to the extent permitted by
- applicable law. Except when otherwise stated in writing, the LaTeX3
- project provides the program `as is' without warranty of any kind,
- either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the
- implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular
- purpose. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the
- program is with you. Should the program prove defective, you assume
- the cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction.
-
- In no event unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing
- will the LaTeX3 project, or any of the individual authors named above,
- be liable to you for damages, including any general, special,
- incidental or consequential damages arising out of any use of the
- program or out of inability to use the program (including but not
- limited to loss of data or data being rendered inaccurate or losses
- sustained by you or by third parties as a result of a failure of the
- program to operate with any other programs), even if such holder or
- other party has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
-
-
- DISTRIBUTION
- ============
-
- Redistribution of unchanged files is allowed provided that all files
- listed in the file manifest.txt are distributed, including this file.
-
- If you receive only some of these files from someone, complain!
-
-
- However, if these files are distributed by established suppliers as
- part of a complete TeX distribution, and the structure of the
- distribution would make it difficult to distribute the whole set of
- files, *those parties only* are allowed to distribute just some of the
- files, provided that:
-
- * their distribution includes a fully functional LaTeX system or
- enables the receiver to set up a fully functional LaTeX system;
-
- * their distribution contains all the documentation concerning the
- system in general, such as the *guide.tex files;
-
- * it is clearly stated how the user can get a complete distribution,
- including all the files listed in manifest.txt, on request to and from
- that supplier (not from us).
-
- Note that this permission is not granted to the end user.
-
-
- The distribution of changed versions of certain files included in the
- LaTeX2e system, and the reuse of code from those files, are allowed
- under the following restrictions:
-
- * It is allowed only if the copyright notice in the file does not
- expressly forbid it.
-
- * You rename the file before you make any changes to it, unless the
- file explicitly says otherwise.
-
- * You change the `identification string' to clearly indicate that the
- file is not part of the standard system.
-
- This `identification string' is in the optional argument of
- whichever of the following three commands appears in the file:
- \ProvidesClass, \ProvidesFile, \ProvidesPackage.
-
- * You change the ERROR REPORT address so that we do not get error
- reports for files *not* maintained by us.
-
- * You acknowledge the source and authorship of the original version
- in the modified file.
-
- * You provide the user with information on how to obtain the original
- versions of all files or, even better, distribute them with
- your files.
-
- These restrictions do *not* all apply to the LaTeX configuration files
- ending with .cfg or .fd. Information about customising these files
- can be found in the copyright notices in those files. See the
- documentation in cfgguide.tex for information on when it makes sense
- to modify or generate such files.
-
- The above restrictions are not intended to prohibit the updating, by
- any method, of a file so that it becomes identical to the latest
- version of that file in the standard release of the LaTeX system.
-
- --- Copyright 1994-1995 the LaTeX3 project. All rights reserved ---
-