Re: Is the GUST-FONT-NOSOURCE-LICENSE free?
Adam Borowski <kilobyte@mimuw.edu.pl> wrote:
> Anyway, I've packaged one of the GUST fonts (antp) once. A ftpmaster
> (Joerg Jaspert) didn't have problems with the source; the reason for
> rejection was unspecified license:
> * CTAN says "public domain"
> * GUST's page mentions a "GNU license"
> * the embedded license field says just "(C) by Polish TeX Users Group
> GUST"
>
> I've tried contacting Janusz Nowacki on 28 Apr 2005 and 14 Sep 2005
> but received no answer. He's obviously alive, so this could be caused
> either by his lack of time or a mail misconfiguration somewhere on the
> way; anyway, I finally forgot about the issue. As there's a
> relicensing going on, it's moot now anyway.
Sorry, I mixed up antt and antp in my first mail. The license given is
associated with the antt fonts, while the antp fonts don't have license
information in the files on CTAN, and other license info is
contradictory as you point out.
I have written to the three contact authors listed in antp's README.ENG
earlier this week and waiting for an answer.
> ANTP, at least in the version I got, has the hinting of several glyphs
> seriously botched; it can be easily fixed with FontForge by adjusting
> the glyphs or just dropping the hints.
Have you told this to the authors, too?
> My old ITP for ttf-antp (#299771) is still lingering open, but as you
> seem to be interested in the whole GUST set, there is no point in
> having a separate badly-done package for just one family.
No, I'm just verifying that every file we already have in teTeX has a
proper, free license, and thus came about those two font families, antt
and antp.
I won't package anything additional; howeer the TeX task force is open
to making their (Type1) fonts available to the non-TeX public (actually,
Norbert joined the newly founded font team).
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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