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Re:The arrangement with my code is the same as with my text.... by jsyedidia on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @11:47PM (#1320282)
It seems to me that the author may be interested in the license Donald Knuth used for the Stanford GraphBase, which looks like this:

The Stanford GraphBase is copyright 1993 by Stanford University

These files may be freely copied and distributed, provided that no changes whatsoever are made. All users are asked to help keep the Stanford GraphBase sources consistent and "uncorrupted," identical everywhere in the world. Changes are permissible only if the changed file is given a new name, different from the names of existing files listed below, and only if the changed file is clearly identified as not being part of the Stanford GraphBase. The author has tried his best to produce correct and useful programs, in order to help promote computer science research, but no warranty of any kind should be assumed.

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Re:The arrangement with my code is the same as with my text.... by btilly on Wednesday May 05, 2010 @01:59AM (#1320456)
That is very similar to the license that Knuth used for TeX as well.

However in both cases Knuth made it clear that he is OK with people reusing the TeX source code as long as they make it clear that it isn't TeX. And again his reason is that he wants people to be able to rely on perfectly consistent behavior from anything that is called TeX.

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