Source Code for Class Materials
Most of the materials I prepared for this course are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. It's supposed to be like open source software. The source code is in LaTeX or OpenOffice.org format, and the compiled binary is PDF. Unfortunately, many of the of the lecture slide sets are still in Powerpoint format because I used Powerpoint before I learned about Beamer. Still, the Powerpoint slides can be read by OpenOffice, so they are useable in a pure open source environment.
You may notice that the names of the LaTeX files end with .tex.txt rather than just .tex. This is so they will display in the browser window rather than being downloaded. To download a file that is being displayed, just go up into the address bar, delete the .txt part, and press Return or Enter. Or get the file to your computr some other way of your choice. But in any case, of course the extension should be .tex if you want to LaTeX it.
The Creative Commons license says (more or less) that you may take all or part of the material, modify it any way you wish, and incorporate it into your own documents -- but those documents must be freely available under the same conditions. Also, you are supposed to give me credit for my contribution ("attribution").
The Creative Commons project is a great concept and the license is important to me, because it requires any document that uses my work to be freely available. But in other ways the license does both more and less than what I intend. The license does more than I need because while it's flattering to be acknowledged, this technical requirement should not be allowed to interfere with your work. Certainly there is no need to give me credit on every document that uses material from my class. Perhaps somewhere on your course website, you could include a statement like "Some course materials are adapted from documents prepared by Jerry Brunner for a course at the University of Toronto." If you wish, you can also provide a link to the course website: http://www.utstat.toronto.edu/~brunner/oldclass/appliedf12. That's more than enough.
In another way, the Creative Commons license requires less than I wish it did. As far as I can tell, it does not require distribution of source code for derivative work. But for document sharing to work well, it should be convenient for everyone to make modifications. That is why I'm making my LaTeX, OpenOffice.org and (yes, I know) Powerpoint documents available below. If you modify them, I hope you will do the same.