Bug#202472: doublestroke type-1 fonts missing?
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> On 23.07.03 Hein Roehrig (hein@acm.org) wrote:
>
> Dear Hein,
>
> 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?
Formally not, I fear - according to the to-be new LPPL one should be
allowed to distribute them as, e.g., cmr12.mf but change the
font_identifier-line, as I understand it (This still means to meet the
"I am allowed to break my system, not?"-criterion of free
licenses...). However, since probably a lot of TeX stuff will take some
time "upgrading" to that license and we certainly won't throw all the
"delayed" ones out¹, we can as well let these enter.
> 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.
ACK.
Frank
¹except some that explicitly refuse to use the new license, or after a
couple of months/years
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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