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Re:Web-assembly powered WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor, supporting nea... by jfk13 on Thursday December 05, 2019 @03:23PM (#21716093)
> • Not all the source code is on GitHub; crucially their modification of the TeX engine seems to be distributed only as the two `.wasm` binary files). Not sure if they plan to share more or not.

PdfTeX is GPL-licensed, so if this is derived from pdfTeX (is it?), I assume they'd be required to make their source available. (Note that the GPL says that "the source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it", which I don't think would be a .wasm binary file.)

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Re:Web-assembly powered WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor, supporting nea... by svat on Thursday December 05, 2019 @07:42PM (#21718313)
Yes as some other people pointed out (and also one of the authors: https://github.com/SwiftLaTeX/SwiftLaTeX/issues/12), the source is available at https://github.com/SwiftLaTeX/PdfTeXLite -- just needs to be cleaned up a bit to make it clearer what the diffs are.
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