Frank Mittelbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ > more ~/tex.web > % This program is copyright (C) 1982 by D. E. Knuth; all rights are reserved. > % Copying of this file is authorized only if (1) you are D. E. Knuth, or if > % (2) you make absolutely no changes to your copy. (The WEB system provides > % for alterations via an auxiliary file; the master file should stay intact.) > > you need more? i can probably find another 100+ files of that type.
This does *not* say that you can change it as long as you change the filename. That's the *point*. You've become addicted to thinking it's the same, but it's totally different. Tex.web says you cannot change it whether or not you change the filename. And it places *no* restrictions whatsoever on what kinds of changes you do make, provided you do so by patches. And then, separately, there is a rule about what can be called TeX: whatever you are happy with as TeX, and which passes the trip test. Nowhere is there a rule that it must be "unmodified" to be called TeX, and there is no TeX distribution anywhere that I know of which does not require modification (by patch files, of course) to run successfully. (You are correct about the CM fonts, which are a different matter; I'm speaking of tex and metafont here.) Thomas
