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Re: TeX (Knuth) copyright



On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 02:39:23PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote:
> Well, according to /usr/doc/tetex*/copyright on my system, Tex is
> GPL.

TeX (note the spelling) predates the GNU GPL by several years: the
first TeX was finished in 1978 and the current TeX dates from 1982,
with feature revisions made up until 1990, when the code was feature
(and partially bugfix) frozen.


        Antti-Juhani
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