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Re: TeX (Knuth) copyright



Alexander Shumakovitch qoutes Donald Knuth:
> Somebody made unauthorized changes to the Computer Modern source files in
> 1994 (i.e., to the METAFONT programs that define the Computer Modern fonts),
> in direct violation of my stipulation on the copyright page of Computers &
> Typesetting, Volume E.
> ...
> ...
> Dear friends, I decided to put these fonts into the public domain rather
> than to make them proprietary;...

Looks like Knuth is (or was) a bit confused about copyright & public
domain.
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