Does this still depend, even indirectly, at the WEB files written by Knuth?
It has the strange license that says "Copying of this file is authorized only if (1) you are D. E. Knuth, or if % (2) you make absolutely no changes to your copy."
http://mirror.las.iastate.edu/tex-archive/systems/knuth/dist...
% Version 0 was released in September 1982 after it passed a variety of tests.
% Version 1 was released in November 1983 after thorough testing.
% Version 1.1 fixed ``disappearing font identifiers'' et alia (July 1984).
% Version 1.2 allowed `0' in response to an error, et alia (October 1984).
% Version 1.3 made memory allocation more flexible and local (November 1984).
% Version 1.4 fixed accents right after line breaks, et alia (April 1985).
% Version 1.5 fixed \the\toks after other expansion in \edefs (August 1985).
% Version 2.0 (almost identical to 1.5) corresponds to "Volume B" (April 1986).
% Version 2.1 corrected anomalies in discretionary breaks (January 1987).
% Version 2.2 corrected "(Please type...)" with null \endlinechar (April 1987).
% Version 2.3 avoided incomplete page in premature termination (August 1987).
% Version 2.4 fixed \noaligned rules in indented displays (August 1987).
% Version 2.5 saved cur_order when expanding tokens (September 1987).
% Version 2.6 added 10sp slop when shipping leaders (November 1987).
% Version 2.7 improved rounding of negative-width characters (November 1987).
% Version 2.8 fixed weird bug if no \patterns are used (December 1987).
% Version 2.9 made \csname\endcsname's "relax" local (December 1987).
% Version 2.91 fixed \outer\def\a0{}\a\a bug (April 1988).
% Version 2.92 fixed \patterns, also file names with complex macros (May 1988).
% Version 2.93 fixed negative halving in allocator when mem_min<0 (June 1988).
% Version 2.94 kept open_log_file from calling fatal_error (November 1988).
% Version 2.95 solved that problem a better way (December 1988).
% Version 2.96 corrected bug in "Infinite shrinkage" recovery (January 1989).
% Version 2.97 corrected blunder in creating 2.95 (February 1989).
% Version 2.98 omitted save_for_after at outer level (March 1989).
% Version 2.99 caught $$\begingroup\halign..$$ (June 1989).
% Version 2.991 caught .5\ifdim.6... (June 1989).
% Version 2.992 introduced major changes for 8-bit extensions (September 1989).
% Version 2.993 fixed a save_stack synchronization bug et alia (December 1989).
% Version 3.0 fixed unusual displays; was more \output robust (March 1990).
% Version 3.1 fixed nullfont, disabled \write{\the\prevgraf} (September 1990).
% Version 3.14 fixed unprintable font names and corrected typos (March 1991).
% Version 3.141 more of same; reconstituted ligatures better (March 1992).
% Version 3.1415 preserved nonexplicit kerns, tidied up (February 1993).
% Version 3.14159 allowed fontmemsize to change; bulletproofing (March 1995).
% Version 3.141592 fixed \xleaders, glueset, weird alignments (December 2002).
% Version 3.1415926 was a general cleanup with minor fixes (February 2008).
% Version 3.14159265 was similar (January 2014).> In his seminal text layout system, TeX, and his equally brilliant typeface design system, METAFONT, Donald uses a versioning number system that asymptotically approaches perfection. The version numbers of TeX approach π (the current version is 3.14159265) and the version numbers of METAFONT approach e.
[a]: I’d love to get a full and complete set of The Art of Computer Programming (all volumes) written first (on his own time, of course), but I doubt that’ll actually happen. According to Wikipedia, there’s supposed to be 7 volumes, and he’s still working on the second half(?) of the 4th.