Sensei <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/29/13 1:25pm, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: > >> As I said multiple times: I've downloaded the TeX book, and I am reading > >> it. > > > > That's illegal. Wherever you've downloaded it from, shouldn't have > > made it available. Unfortunately Addison-Wesley doesn't provide the > > option to buy an electronic version (that I know of), you have to buy > > the paper copy. > > So... CTAN is illegal? > > http://www.ctan.org/pkg/texbook
read that page: "The source has ‘protection’ against use to produce a document" and "... only allowed with permission ..." the *source* is distributed quite legally. a pdf copy (i've been told such exist on the net) is illegal. so we're within the law. even dmca! (in this instance, at least...) Robin Fairbairns For the CTAN team
