Jeroen Nijhof wrote:
> > Is it free?
> > In the affirmative answer, where can I get it?
>
> You can find it in ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/incoming/opustex/atwork/opus084.tgz
> (or ../opus084.zip). That version, of February 4, 1998 seems to be the
> latest version; it certainly has been in "incoming" for a while!
i created the /incoming/opustex directory at his specific request.
when andreas egler stopped being a student, he couldn't afford access
to an ftp server to distribute his early test releases. when he was
still working on it, he would upload a new version, and ask me to move
it to the right place and set its protections so that the general
public could get at it.
i explained to him that this was no way to go about distributing
software, but he was adamant that we should continue working that
way. i'm not sure he entirely trusted me...
> I have no idea how it compares with the latest version of MusixTeX
> (v. T97, as of July 8th this year).
they'll have similar underlying ideas, but the story is likely to stop
there.
> OpusTeX seems to be freely downloadable, but apparently
> it is not "DFSG-free", i.e. not free according to
> the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
it's getting a steady, though slow, trickle of downloads.
robin
