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Re: apache non-free?



On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 12:39:03PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Jules Bean wrote:
> 
> >...
> > 2) Anybody who wishes to use Knuth's actual code (which is encouraged)
> > must change the name of the source file(s) concerned, simply so that
> > third parties won't be confused into thinking they have the original
> > version. This isn't really a trademark issue (you can't trademark
> > 'texmain.c', or whatever), so it's enforced by the copyright license.
> >...
> 
> The whole source code of TeX is in the file tex.web ...

Yes, but that's hardly the point, is it?

There is also metafont, plain.tex and so on under the same license.

Jules



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