Re: Knuth statement on renaming cm files and Licence violation.

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Martin Schröder <ms@artcom-gmbh.de> writes:

> On 2002-09-04 16:13:24 +0100, David Carlisle wrote:
> > Sadly, I don't own a copy of Computers & Typesetting vol E either.
> 
> The millenium edition has this:
> 
>     "The programs for Computer Modern are in the public domain,
>     and readers may freely generate and hand-tune their own fonts
>     using the algorithms of this book. However, use of the names
>     is restricted: Any font whose names cmr10 or cmbx12 or ...
>     are identical to the standard font names of this book should
>     be fully compatible with the fonts defined here; i.e., fonts
>     with the same names are supposed to have precisely the same
>     character coding schemes and precisely the same font metric
>     files."

Which, note carefully, is not an "if you change this, you must rename
it" requirement.  Rather, it requires renaming for *certain* kinds of
changes, rather similarly to the tex.web rules, and rather differently
from the LAPL.