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Subject: Re: User's thoughts about LPPL
From: Boris Veytsman <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 14:57:09 -0400
In-Reply-To: <v03110705b961fef4cd8e@[195.100.226.133]> (message from Hans Aberg on Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:37:38 +0200)
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> Date:         Mon, 22 Jul 2002 20:37:38 +0200
> From: Hans Aberg <[log in to unmask]>
>

>
> Was it not the copyright? Is TeX a trademark?
>


Yes. TeX is a trademark of the American Mathematical Society.
METAFONT is a trademark of Addison Wesley Longman.

> > 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?

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.

--
Good luck

-Boris

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
                -- Confucius

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