Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([62.225.9.49]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.4905); Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:33:44 +0200 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g6N9XSWi010346 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:33:29 +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 g6N9N3T8005499; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:23:03 +0200 (MET DST) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C2322C.098D4C00" 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 g6N5v3wn013667; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:23:26 +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 4238 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:23:25 +0200 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.2/8.12.2/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id g6N9NPuV014719 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:23:25 +0200 Received: from smtp.tninet.se (lennier.tninet.se [195.100.94.105]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g6N9MXWK017656 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:22:34 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [195.100.226.129] (du129-226.ppp.su-anst.tninet.se [195.100.226.129]) by lennier.tninet.se (BMR ErlangTM/OTP 3.0) with ESMTP id 919204.416151.1027.1s47976902lennier for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:22:31 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200207221857.g6MIv9iZ010706@bilbo.localnet> References: (message from Hans Aberg on Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:37:38 +0200) (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: 23 Jul 2002 09:33:44.0442 (UTC) FILETIME=[09D0BDA0:01C2322C] X-Sender: haberg@pop.matematik.su.se (Unverified) 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: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:21:28 +0100 Message-ID: A X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: User's thoughts about LPPL Thread-Index: AcIyLAoMd3VdthLwTnqKBl1ACDt6yw== From: "Hans Aberg" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4348 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C2322C.098D4C00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 14:57 -0400 2002/07/22, Boris Veytsman wrote: >> Is TeX a trademark? >Yes. TeX is a trademark of the American Mathematical Society. >METAFONT is a trademark of Addison Wesley Longman. ... >Knuth is the copyright holder. Knuth's express wish prevents AMS to >make a non-TeX called TeX. I do not know the legal delicacies, but I >think AMS is not going to violate Knuth's wish. But when Knuth dies, his copyright and wishes are transferred to the = estate of the deceased, and it is up those maintaining that estate to decide = what to do about it. BTW, why not calling the successor of TeX "Knuth" (or "Don"), in honor = of the inventor of modern electronic typesetting? :-) Hans Aberg ------_=_NextPart_001_01C2322C.098D4C00 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: User's thoughts about LPPL

At 14:57 -0400 2002/07/22, Boris Veytsman = wrote:
>> Is TeX a trademark?

>Yes. TeX is a trademark of the American = Mathematical Society.
>METAFONT is a trademark of Addison Wesley = Longman.
...
>Knuth is the copyright holder. Knuth's express = wish prevents AMS to
>make a non-TeX called TeX. I do not know the = legal delicacies, but I
>think AMS is not going to violate Knuth's = wish.

But when Knuth dies, his copyright and wishes are = transferred to the estate
of the deceased, and it is up those maintaining that = estate to decide what
to do about it.

BTW, why not calling the successor of TeX = "Knuth" (or "Don"), in honor of
the inventor of modern electronic typesetting? = :-)

  Hans Aberg

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