Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([62.225.9.49]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.4905); Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:51:35 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g6MIpIWi008209 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:51:19 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 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 g6MIdYT8017074; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:39:34 +0200 (MET DST) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C231B0.CD68D580" 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 g6M1vJCx006368; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:39:56 +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 4956 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:39:56 +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 g6MIduuV011761 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:39:56 +0200 Received: from smtp.tninet.se (vir.tninet.se [195.100.94.108]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6MId7T8017025 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:39:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [195.100.226.133] (du129-226.ppp.su-anst.tninet.se [195.100.226.129]) by vir.tninet.se (BMR ErlangTM/OTP 3.0) with ESMTP id 120264.363145.1027.0s677124vir for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:39:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200207221625.g6MGPApo009180@bilbo.localnet> References: (message from Hans Aberg on Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:26:40 +0200) <878z46p1yi.fsf@becket.becket.net> <200207162352.g6GNq9Ow031038@bilbo.localnet> <878z46p1yi.fsf@becket.becket.net> Return-Path: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Jul 2002 18:51:38.0908 (UTC) FILETIME=[CFBD25C0:01C231B0] X-Sender: haberg@pop.matematik.su.se 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 19:37:38 +0100 Message-ID: A X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: User's thoughts about LPPL Thread-Index: AcIxsNArgRhv2XrBSGmZtj2A4FXKgg== From: "Hans Aberg" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4343 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C231B0.CD68D580 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 12:25 -0400 2002/07/22, Boris Veytsman wrote: >> When Knuth dies, I figure that the copyright of TeX will be = transferred to >> the estate of the deceased, ... >AFAIK, Knuth transferred his trademark to American Mathematical >Society. Was it not the copyright? Is TeX a trademark? > As far as I know AMS is not going to disband any time soon. So if Knuth isn't the copyright holder but the AMS, what prevents AMS to make a TeX successor also called TeX? -- I am not sure there is much point in that, though. A true successor might benefit from a new name. >Good luck You too. Hans Aberg ------_=_NextPart_001_01C231B0.CD68D580 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: User's thoughts about LPPL

At 12:25 -0400 2002/07/22, Boris Veytsman = wrote:
>> When Knuth dies, I figure that the copyright = of TeX will be transferred to
>> the estate of the deceased,
...
>AFAIK, Knuth transferred his trademark to = American Mathematical
>Society.

Was it not the copyright? Is TeX a trademark?

> As far as I know AMS is not going to disband any = time soon.

So if Knuth isn't the copyright holder but the AMS, = what prevents AMS to
make a TeX successor also called TeX?

-- I am not sure there is much point in that, though. = A true successor
might benefit from a new name.

>Good luck

You too.

  Hans Aberg

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