<div id="edo-message"><div><div><div>At this point contacting somebody in US Digital Service or the 18F directorate of the General Services Administration might be beneficial. They might be able to help in determing if software like LaTeX meets the definition of Commercial Off The Shelf which at first glance it doesn't. If Section 508 rules are inapplicable then completing paperwork is unnecessary.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Parallel to that I would suggest contacting appropriate counsel for the necessary rightsholder entity for the software. An ongoing appropriate point of contact for the government sector may be needed especially when free downloadable software apparently still does not fit a procurement compliance paradigm in 2021. In an age when nobody wants to wind up in an Inspector General report there is plenty of hesitancy.</div><div><br></div><div>Stephen Michael Kellat</div><div><br></div><div id="edo-signature"><pre></pre></div></div></div><div id="edo-original"><div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin: 1ex 0 0 0 !important; border-left: 1px #ccc solid !important; padding-left: 0.4ex !important;"><div id="edo-meta">On Mar 22, 2021 at 8:50 PM, Paulo Ney de Souza <<a href="mailto:pauloney@gmail.com">pauloney@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <br><br></div><div dir="ltr">This seems to be a recurrent problem:<div><br></div><div> <a href="https://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/2017-February/022569.html">https://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/2017-February/022569.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Paulo Ney</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 4:32 PM Talley, Dana via texhax <<a href="mailto:texhax@tug.org">texhax@tug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br>
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One of our Environmental Protection Agency staff is requesting to download LaTex Desktop software to her work laptop. Our IT division requires VPAT compliance information on your product. Could you provide me with a VPAT for R Studio Desktop software?<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
Dana Talley<br>
LSASD Management Analyst<br>
1200 6th Ave. Ste. 155 MS 14-D12<br>
Seattle, WA, 98101<br>
206-553-8414<br>
360-871-8700 (Page) Lab - Thursdays<br>
360-443-6632 Telework - Fridays<br>
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From: Frank Mittelbach <<a href="mailto:frank.mittelbach@latex-project.org" target="_blank">frank.mittelbach@latex-project.org</a>> <br>
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2021 9:17 AM<br>
To: Talley, Dana <<a href="mailto:Talley.Dana@epa.gov" target="_blank">Talley.Dana@epa.gov</a>><br>
Cc: Williams, Anthony <<a href="mailto:Williams.Anthony@epa.gov" target="_blank">Williams.Anthony@epa.gov</a>><br>
Subject: Re: LaTex Software VPAT Request<br>
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Am 19.03.21 um 16:03 schrieb Talley, Dana:<br>
> Hello,<br>
> <br>
> One of our Environmental Protection Agency staff is requesting to <br>
> download LaTex Desktop software to her work laptop. Our IT division <br>
> requires VPAT compliance information on your product. Could you <br>
> provide me with a VPAT for R Studio Desktop software?<br>
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I'm sorry I have nothing to do with R Studio.<br>
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We develop LaTeX as a free open source solution, but we are not even the people packaging or distributing it and we aren't providing any VPAT compliance information about LaTeX and there is none to the best of my knowledge.<br>
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LaTeX is distributed for free anybody can download or use it, so there is no "vendor" as such.<br>
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regards<br>
Frank<br>
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