Bug#202472: doublestroke type-1 fonts missing?
On 23.07.03 Hein Roehrig (hein@acm.org) wrote:
Dear Hein,
> I noticed that on Debian (package tetex-extra 2.0.2-4.1) the Type-1
> fonts from http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/doublestroke are
> missing, whereas the other files are present.
>
> I was told that this is the same situation in the teTeX source. Google
> turned out a message from the Debian teTeX maintainers
> <200203192130.g2JLUgTJ005704@diziet.clawpaws.net> which cited
^^^^^^^^^^^^
> doublestroke as having no license, which is weird in face of
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/doublestroke/readme containing
>
That message seems from March of 2002. Actually the fonts on CTAN are
more recent. Things are changing...
> | You may use and distribute these fonts as you like.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> | You may modify these fonts as long as you do not rename the files
> | to one of those names that Donald E. Knuth chose for the Computer
> | Modern fonts. (And seriously, who would want to do that?)
>
Is that DFSG-free?
As there are already some parts of the fonts in tetex, I propose now,
to include the updated version + *.pfb. We should forward to TE, if
the license question in clarified.
H.
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