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F. Beebe" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4372 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C28031.463DC000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This note, cross-posted to several lists, is to draw your attention to the recent article ``Open Source is good for America - US military advised'', by Andrew Orlowski, available at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27822.html It in turn points to the 160-page report ``Use of Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense: Version: 1.2'', prepared by the MITRE Corporation for the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency, available at http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf That report tabulates scores of open source software projects, including emacs, gawk, ghostscript and LaTeX (but curiously, omits TeX), and in particular, includes about 100 pages of software licenses that accompany these packages. By this posting, I do not wish to reopen debates on software licenses, but rather, I felt that the collection of so many of them in one place would be a very helpful reference for those of you who sometime might have to be involved in software licensing questions. -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------ - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 = - - Center for Scientific Computing FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 801 581 = 4148 - - University of Utah Internet e-mail: = beebe@math.utah.edu - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB beebe@acm.org = beebe@computer.org - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@ieee.org = - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: = http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------ ------_=_NextPart_001_01C28031.463DC000 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Free software and software licenses

This note, cross-posted to several lists, is to draw = your attention to
the recent article ``Open Source is good for America = - US military
advised'', by Andrew Orlowski, available at

        http://www.the= register.co.uk/content/4/27822.html

It in turn points to the 160-page report ``Use of Free = and Open-Source
Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense: = Version: 1.2'',
prepared by the MITRE Corporation for the U.S. = Defense Information
Systems Agency, available at

        http://www.egovos.org/pdf/= dodfoss.pdf

That report tabulates scores of open source software = projects,
including emacs, gawk, ghostscript and LaTeX (but = curiously, omits
TeX), and in particular, includes about 100 pages of = software licenses
that accompany these packages.

By this posting, I do not wish to reopen debates on = software licenses,
but rather, I felt that the collection of so many of = them in one place
would be a very helpful reference for those of you = who sometime might
have to be involved in software licensing = questions.

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- Nelson H. F. = Beebe           &n= bsp;        Tel: +1 801 581 = 5254           &nb= sp;      -
- Center for Scientific = Computing       FAX: +1 801 585 1640, +1 = 801 581 4148 -
- University of = Utah           &nb= sp;        Internet e-mail: = beebe@math.utah.edu  -
- Department of Mathematics, 110 = LCB        beebe@acm.org  = beebe@computer.org -
- 155 S 1400 E RM = 233           &nbs= p;           = beebe@ieee.org          = ;          -
- Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, = USA    URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe<= /A>  -
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