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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