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On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, [iso-8859-1] Frank Küster wrote:
> Roland Waldi <waldi@granat.physik2.uni-rostock.de> schrieb:
>
> > die Fonts waren urspruenglich nur in den Groessen 5,6,7,8,9,10,b10
> > vorgesehehn, 4 und b5 habe ich daher nie getestet.
>
> Ah, vielen Dank für diese Information. Ich nehme an, dass Sie als
> Universitätsdozent kein Problem mit English haben, daher:
>
> I'll carry on in english, because in fact this problem was reported to
> the Debian GNU/Linux bugtracking system, and I'm sending a copy to it's
> archives.
>
> > Ihr Problem veschwindet, wenn Sie in der Datei
> >
> > wasychr.mf
> >
> > Die Zeile 70
> >
> > x0$=xpart(((h,y0$)--(x1,y0$)) intersectionpoint testpath); endfor
> >
> > ersetzen durch
> >
> > x0$=xpart(((2h,y0$)--(x1,y0$)) intersectionpoint testpath); endfor
>
> Are you considering to upload a corrected version to CTAN?
I have no time. If you can handle this, it's fine with me.
>
> I consider it always better that things like this are corrected on CTAN,
> because it's kind of the canonical source for TeX-related things, and
> it's unfortunate if some people have a different version of wasychr.mf
> than others.
>
> By the way, the license is somewhat unclear with respect to distibution
> of modified versions - "public domain" is usually understood in the
> sense that one can use the material to generate derivative
> works. However, when you say "So, permission is granted to use and/or
> distribute these files." this could be understood that you don't allow
> modification or derivative works. Would we be allowed to distribute a
> corrected version with our Linux distribution?
>
> In order to allow modification, but on the other hand ensure that a
> document using these fonts produces identical output on every system,
> many people prefer the LaTeX Project Public License, LPPL, which
> requires renaming of modified versions (of course not if the original
> author makes or authorizes these modifications).
I'm no lawyer, and appeal to common sense rather than legal terms
concerning derivative work and modifications. The fix i sent you does
not change the character in already existing font sizes, so the fixed
version is compatible with the existing one.
The present legal text is not mine but from
Thomas Esser <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>
(added with my agreement, of course)
who apparently had similar "license problems" as you.
>
> Anyway, speaking for our users I have to thank you very much for
> providing these fonts to the TeX community.
>
> Viele Grüße, Frank Küster
> --
> Dr. Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
> Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
>
regards,
Roland Waldi
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