Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([62.225.9.49]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.4905); Mon, 22 Jul 2002 18:37:37 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g6MGbKWi007986 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 18:37:21 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6MGPLT8000512; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 18:25:21 +0200 (MET DST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C2319E.16635E80" Received: from listserv (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.27]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.2/8.12.2/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id g6M1vJBN006368; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 18:26:00 +0200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 4845 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 18:26:00 +0200 Received: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (relay2.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.210.211]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.2/8.12.2/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id g6MGQ0uV011187 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 18:26:00 +0200 Received: from bilbo.localnet (root@pcp742276pcs.reston01.va.comcast.net [68.49.144.202]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6MGPAT8000475 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 18:25:11 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from bilbo.localnet (boris@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bilbo.localnet (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian -4) with ESMTP id g6MGPAEC009184 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=FAIL); Mon, 22 Jul 2002 12:25:10 -0400 Received: (from boris@localhost) by bilbo.localnet (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian -4) id g6MGPApo009180; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 12:25:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Hans Aberg on Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:26:40 +0200) References: <878z46p1yi.fsf@becket.becket.net> <200207162352.g6GNq9Ow031038@bilbo.localnet> <878z46p1yi.fsf@becket.becket.net> Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Jul 2002 16:37:37.0845 (UTC) FILETIME=[16E44E50:01C2319E] X-Authentication-Warning: bilbo.localnet: boris set sender to borisv@lk.net using -f X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: User's thoughts about LPPL Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:25:10 +0100 Message-ID: A<200207221625.g6MGPApo009180@bilbo.localnet> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: User's thoughts about LPPL Thread-Index: AcIxnhcJKe7jRkTbRwKlcQktZej/dQ== From: "Boris Veytsman" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4342 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C2319E.16635E80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:26:40 +0200 > From: Hans Aberg > > When Knuth dies, I figure that the copyright of TeX will be = transferred to > the estate of the deceased, and it will be up to the maintainers of = this > estate to decide what will happen with TeX: They may decide to respect = the > wishes epxressed by Knuth, or to do something else, like making TeX = into a > commercial product. Those that do not like what happens with TeX at = that > time may decide to challenge it in court. AFAIK, Knuth transferred his trademark to American Mathematical Society. As far as I know AMS is not going to disband any time soon. -- Good luck -Boris "Consequences, Schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich." -- Looney Tunes, Ali Baba Bunny (1957, Chuck Jones) ------_=_NextPart_001_01C2319E.16635E80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: User's thoughts about LPPL

> = Date:         Mon, 22 Jul 2002 = 11:26:40 +0200
> From: Hans Aberg = <haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE>

>
> When Knuth dies, I figure that the copyright of = TeX will be transferred to
> the estate of the deceased, and it will be up to = the maintainers of this
> estate to decide what will happen with TeX: They = may decide to respect the
> wishes epxressed by Knuth, or to do something = else, like making TeX into a
> commercial product. Those that do not like what = happens with TeX at that
> time may decide to challenge it in court.


AFAIK, Knuth transferred his trademark to American = Mathematical
Society. As far as I know AMS is not going to disband = any time soon.

--
Good luck

-Boris

"Consequences, Schmonsequences, as long as I'm = rich."
-- Looney Tunes, Ali Baba Bunny (1957, Chuck = Jones)

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