LaTeX2e Copyright, Warranty and Distribution Restrictions 18 November 1995 COPYRIGHT ========= This distribution is Copyright 1993 1994 1995 the LaTeX3 project and the individual authors: Leslie Lamport Johannes Braams David Carlisle Alan Jeffrey Frank Mittelbach Chris Rowley Rainer Schoepf WARRANTY ======== 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 ============ 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. * 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. ======================================================================== NOTES ===== 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 ============================== 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. --- Copyright 1994, 1995 the LaTeX3 project. All rights reserved ---