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+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label whyfree</title>
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+<h3>If TeX is so good, how come it's free?</h3>
+<p>It's free because Knuth chose to make it so. He is nevertheless
+apparently happy
+that others should earn money by selling TeX-based services and
+products. While several valuable TeX-related tools and packages are
+offered subject to restrictions imposed by the GNU General Public
+Licence ('Copyleft'), TeX itself is not subject to Copyleft.
+<p>There are commercial versions of TeX available; for some users,
+it's reassuring to have paid support. What is more, some of the
+commercial implementations
+have features that are not available in free versions. (The
+reverse is also true: some free implementations have features
+not available commercially.)
+<p>This FAQ concentrates on 'free' distributions of TeX, but we
+do at least list the <a href="FAQ-commercial.html">major vendors</a>.
+<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=whyfree">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=whyfree</a>
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