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Will the LaTeX document-classes be made available for use outside the Singularity Institute?
No. The Singularity Institute (ie Luke) considers the document-class to be SIAI intellectual property. We have invested many hours making the pdf output high quality, standards conforming and distinctive. The template is hosted securely and will only be distributed to those producing papers for publication by SIAI.
Is the purpose behind this decision to prevent others from putting out fake SIAI papers, to deny the benefit of SIAI's effort to potential competitors, or something else?
Don't know. I'm just a minion! I can only speculate based on what reasoning I would use in Luke's place.
It's analogous to not handing out your letterhead in the days before copiers.
When your letterhead is awesome! ;)
Well, that's a clear answer at least.
Of course, distribution outside SIAI is not the same as putting it in the public domain, so technically you'd not be giving up your intellectual property, it's just about what you allow others to do with it. I can understand SIAI does not want to dillute its brand by having others re-using the exact templates -- but maybe it would be possible to publish a sub-template, something without the SIAI-specifics?
Has the document-class changed significantly from the original template? Because a lot of those got distributed without much/anything in the way of IP notices.