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Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: User's thoughts about LPPL
From: Boris Veytsman <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 12:25:10 -0400
In-Reply-To: <v03110700b9617ea3a699@[195.100.226.132]> (message from Hans Aberg on Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:26:40 +0200)
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> Date:         Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:26:40 +0200
> From: Hans Aberg <[log in to unmask]>

>
> 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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