On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 04:34:56PM -0800, C.M. Connelly wrote:
>
> "DT" == Dylan Thurston <dpt@math.harvard.edu> writes:
>
>
> DT> The tetex-base package includes many non-free documents in
> DT> /usr/share/doc/texmf. I noticed
> DT> /usr/share/doc/texmf/metapost/base/mpman.ps.gz, which is a
> DT> PostScript copy of a tech report. It is apparently
> DT> available in only this form, but I'm sure there are many
> DT> other such documents. Note that this documentation is the
> DT> only documentation on MetaPost; it is technical
> DT> documentation and needs to be free. ("Free software needs
> DT> free documentation".) I noticed this when I was looking
> DT> for the source to mpman.ps.gz to understand how it works.
>
> A little research shows that the example ``non-free'' document,
> mpman.ps, is in fact in the public domain.
>
> See
> <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/msdos/metapost/DISCLAIMER>,
> which reads in part:
Thanks for pointing this out; nevertheless, the source code is not
available (anywhere on the net, as far as I can see).
(I was actually looking for the source code when I noticed this.)
Best,
Dylan Thurston
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