X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["180" "Tue" "15" "December" "1998" "12:45:41" "GMT" "David Carlisle" "davidc@NAG.CO.UK" nil "6" "Re: pdf and ps portable LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "12" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07497; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:47:29 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <5.C2E0BB76@listserv.gmd.de>; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:46:21 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 413430 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:46:16 +0100 Received: from nag.co.uk (openmath.nag.co.uk [192.156.217.16]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01806 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:46:12 +0100 (MET) Received: (from davidc@localhost) by nag.co.uk (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7/8.7) id MAA13506; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 12:45:41 GMT References: (message from Hans Aberg on Mon, 14 Dec 1998 19:27:52 +0100) ; from Hans Aberg on Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 04:55:25PM +0100 <13938.39518.68424.927988@fell.open.ac.uk> <199812092035.VAA16014@na6.mathematik.uni-tuebingen.de> <13941.7255.489674.140731@srahtz> Message-ID: <199812151245.MAA13506@nag.co.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: (message from Hans Aberg on Tue, 15 Dec 1998 12:20:16 +0100) Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 12:45:41 GMT From: David Carlisle Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: pdf and ps portable LaTeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3138 > So, if dvips and becomes commercially hot, then Adobe can ask for license > fees for both dvips and pdftex: No. They can't. Perhaps we should return to discussing latex? David