LaTeX2e Copyright, Warranty and Distribution Restrictions
18 November 1995
COPYRIGHT
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This distribution is Copyright 1993 1994 1995 1996
The LaTeX3 Project and the individual authors:
Leslie Lamport
Johannes Braams
David Carlisle
Alan Jeffrey
Frank Mittelbach
Chris Rowley
Rainer Schoepf
WARRANTY
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There is no warranty for LaTeX, to the extent permitted by applicable
law. Except when otherwise stated in writing, the LaTeX3 project
provides the program `as is' without warranty of any kind, either
expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied
warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.
The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the program is
with you. Should the program prove defective, you assume the cost of
all necessary servicing, repair or correction.
In no event unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing
will the LaTeX3 project, or any of the individual authors named above,
be liable to you for damages, including any general, special,
incidental or consequential damages arising out of any use of the
program or out of inability to use the program (including but not
limited to loss of data or data being rendered inaccurate or losses
sustained by you or by third parties as a result of a failure of the
program to operate with any other programs), even if such holder or
other party has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
DISTRIBUTION
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Redistribution of unchanged files is allowed provided that all files
listed in the file manifest.txt are distributed, including this file.
If you receive only some of these files from someone, complain!
However, if these files are distributed by established suppliers as
part of a complete TeX distribution on low capcity media such as
`floppy disks', and the structure of the distribution would make it
difficult to distribute the whole set of files, then *those parties
only* are allowed to distribute just some of the files, provided that:
* their distribution includes a fully functional LaTeX system or
enables the receiver to set up a fully functional LaTeX system;
* their distribution contains all the documentation concerning the
system in general, such as the *guide.tex files;
* it is clearly stated how the user can get a complete
distribution including all the files listed in manifest.txt, on
request, from that supplier (*not* from us).
Note that this permission to distribute is not granted to the end user.
The distribution of changed versions of certain files included in the
LaTeX system, and the reuse of code from those files, are allowed
under the following restrictions:
* It is allowed only if the legal notice in the file does not
expressly forbid it.
See below, under "Conditions on individual files", for a complete
list of those classes of files which are exceptions.
* You rename the file before you make any changes to it, unless the
file explicitly says that renaming is not required. Any such changed
files should be distributed under conditions that ensure that those
files, and any files derived from them, will never be redistributed
under the names used by the original files in the LaTeX distribution.
* You change the `identification string' to clearly indicate that the
file is not part of the standard system.
This `identification string' is in the optional argument of
whichever of the following three commands appears in the file:
\ProvidesClass, \ProvidesFile, \ProvidesPackage.
* You change the `error report address' so that we do not get error
reports for files not maintained by us.
* You acknowledge the source and authorship of the original version
in the modified file.
* You also distribute the unmodified version of the file.
The above restrictions are not intended to prohibit, and hence do
not apply to, the updating, by any method, of a file so that it
becomes identical to the latest version of that file in the Standard
LaTeX system.
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NOTES
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We believe that these requirements give you the freedom you to make
modifications that conform with whatever technical specifications you
wish, whilst maintaining the availability, integrity and reliability of
the Standard LaTeX distribution. If you do not see how to achieve
your goal whilst adhering to these requirements then read the document
cfgguide.tex for suggestions.
We deprecate the distribution of non-standard versions but we permit
it under the above restrictions. Read the document modguide.tex to
learn about our reasons for the legal requirements detailed above.
Conditions on individual files
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The individual files may bear additional conditions which supersede
the general conditions on distribution and modification contained in
this file.
Note: The following points relate only to the files in the standard
LaTeX `base' and `unpacked' distributions.
* The conditions on individual files differ only in the
extent of *modification* that is allowed.
The conditions on *distribution* are the same for all the files.
Thus a (re)distributor of a complete, unchanged Standard LaTeX need
meet only the conditions in this file; it is not necessary to check
the header of every file in the distribution to check that a
distribution meets these requirements.
* The files which have modification conditions that differ from the
general conditions in this file are all listed here:
* Files with extension `.ins': these files may not be modified
at all because they contain the legal notices that are placed in
the generated files.
* Files with extension `.fd': the modification restrictions on
these font definition files permit modification without changing
the name, but only to enable use of all available fonts and to
prevent attempts to access unavailable fonts.
See the header of any of the .fd files for details.
* Files with extension `.cfg': these files should be created or
modified to enable easy configuration of the system. The
documentation in cfgguide.tex describes when it makes sense to
modify or generate such files.
Files with extension .cfg and .fd are found only in the `unpacked'
distribution. The documentation in cfgguide.tex contains information
and advice concerning when it makes sense to modify or generate
such files.
Files with extension .ins are found in both the `base' and
`unpacked' distributions.
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