Re: TeX Licenses & teTeX (Was: Re: forwarded message from Jeff Licquia)
Lars Hellström <Lars.Hellstrom@math.umu.se> writes:
> However concerning the CM fonts I think you're wrong, since the conditions
> for these are indeed very similar to those of the LPPL; it's just the case
> that the LPPL relaxes these conditions in some cases. If you think a
> "rename file before modification" rule is clearly DFSG-free then I'm glad,
> but there are others that need to be convinced of that too.
A key difference is that the CM fonts source need not be installed
(tetex automatically runs METAFONT in some cases, but it could easily
be pointed at different source names).
Users use *.tfm files when running TeX, and the restrictions on *.mf
names are not restrictions on *.tfm names. That's a key fact.
However, the LPPL restricts the actual filename the user normally
uses, rather than a name that really appears only in the source.
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