[yandytex] Using YandY

[Paulo Ney de Souza]

Karl,

Could you explain better what exactly has "Blenda" donated to TUG ? I 
was under the impression that the proprietary material was the donation, 
but you seem to be excising that out!

What is exactly that has been donated and what is being excised ?

Paulo Ney de Souza
Univ. of California, Berkeley


Karl Berry wrote:
>     I would like to know the price and the rights to use it and distribute it
>
> The proprietary Y&Y TeX system is not available now and never (99.9%
> probability) will be again, in its previously-released form.
>
> As I briefly wrote on http://tug.org/yandy/, and at more length on this
> list, perhaps one day there will be a free TeX distribution based on the
> Y&Y code, or the Y&Y code will be incorporated into other distributions.
> Exactly what happens will be up to the community.
>
> My current effort is to go through the Y&Y archives and excise the
> proprietary/private pieces; the remainder (the bulk of it) will be made
> publicly available under some free software license.  It will take quite
> some time (months, at least) before this is complete.
>
> As always, major thanks to Blenda for donating the Y&Y materials to TUG,
> on behalf of the scientific community, in the first place.
>
> Best regards,
> Karl
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