Bug#366842: tetex-base: unclear license and origin situation of Base 35 PS fonts
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 18:44 +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > For the files with one hit, it's clear where we can check the license;
> > for the ones with multiple hits it shouldn't be hard. The tfm file in
> > this case might be in lw35nfss.zip.
>
> Okay, for courier.tpm this gives the following files which are neither
>
> - on CTAN, uncompressed,
> - in lw35nfss.zip nor
> - in freenfss.zip
I am missing
texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/adobe/courier/pcrb8u.tfm
texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/adobe/courier/pcrbc8u.tfm
texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/adobe/courier/pcrbo8u.tfm
texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/adobe/courier/pcrr8u.tfm
texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/adobe/courier/pcrrc8u.tfm
texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/adobe/courier/pcrro8u.tfm
here. Where did your script find these? Files with these names can be
found in CTAN:macros/cstex/base/cspsfonts.tar.gz. The license status of
which is being sorted out at the moment. The same applies to the
following files
> texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/adobe/courier/rpcrb.tfm: No hits
> texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/adobe/courier/rpcrbo.tfm: No hits
> texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/adobe/courier/rpcrr.tfm: No hits
> texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/adobe/courier/rpcrro.tfm: No hits
Next, there are
> texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/adobe/courier/pcrb8y.tfm: No hits
> texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/adobe/courier/pcrbo8y.tfm: No hits
> texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/adobe/courier/pcrr8y.tfm: No hits
> texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/adobe/courier/pcrro8y.tfm: No hits
8y stands for LY1 encoding, which gives us the hint to look into
CTAN:fonts/metrics/ly1/lw35nfsx.zip. Files with this name can be found
in there. Unfortunately there is no license statement. And the creators
of these files (Y&Y) are out of buisness. There are also LaTeX support
files in there. However, teTeX is probably shipping those from
CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/ly1/. Again, no proper license
statement.
This leaves the following files:
> texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/adobe/courier/pcrb.tfm: No hits
> texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/adobe/courier/pcrbc.tfm: No hits
> texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/adobe/courier/pcrbo.tfm: No hits
> texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/adobe/courier/pcrr.tfm: No hits
> texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/adobe/courier/pcrrc.tfm: No hits
> texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/adobe/courier/pcrro.tfm: No hits
> texmf-dist/fonts/vf/adobe/courier/pcrb.vf: No hits
> texmf-dist/fonts/vf/adobe/courier/pcrbc.vf: No hits
> texmf-dist/fonts/vf/adobe/courier/pcrbo.vf: No hits
> texmf-dist/fonts/vf/adobe/courier/pcrr.vf: No hits
> texmf-dist/fonts/vf/adobe/courier/pcrrc.vf: No hits
> texmf-dist/fonts/vf/adobe/courier/pcrro.vf: No hits
I have no idea where they come from. Maybe from the meanwhile deleted
CTAN:fonts/metrics/adobe/? I will have to check some old CTAN CDs for
this.
For both, these metrics and the LY1 metrics above the general question
applies: Do I gain copyright by calling afm2tfm (or a similar tool) with
appropriate options? Does converting information from one format to
another give me any rights under copyright law?
If 'no', we should be fine as long as we are allowed to distribute
Adobe's AFM metrics (texmf-dist/fonts/afm/adobe/). I am not sure if the
LPPL statement in CTAN:fonts/metrics/psnfss-source/README.sources
applies to the AFM files, too.
BTW, we are not the only ones distributing Adobe's AFM files:
~$ dpkg -S Courier.afm pcrr8a.afm
openoffice.org: /usr/lib/openoffice/share/psprint/fontmetric/Courier.afm
python-matplotlib-data: /usr/share/matplotlib/pcrr8a.afm
tetex-extra: /usr/share/texmf-tetex/fonts/afm/adobe/courier/pcrr8a.afm
libgnomeprint-data: /usr/share/fonts/afms/adobe/pcrr8a.afm
cheerio
ralf
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