Bug#366842: tetex-base: unclear license and origin situation of Base 35 PS fonts
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 19:57 +0200, Ralf Stubner wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 18:44 +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> > 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.
I did check CTAN CD sets from 1999, 2000, and 2001. In 1999 these files
were part off PSNFSS, which was still maintained by Sebastion Rahtz at
that time. They could be found in fonts/psfonts/adobe/courier.zip,
fonts/psfonts/lw35nfss.zip, macros/latex/required/psnfss/lw35nfss.zip.
No license statement in the accompanying README files etc. :-(
In 2000 Walter took aver maintaining PSNFSS and these files could no
longer be found in macros/latex/required/psnfss/lw35nfss.zip. They were
still in the other two places.
In 2001, fonts/psfonts/lw35nfss.zip had disappeared, but those files
could still be found in fonts/psfonts/adobe/courier.zip. Meanwhile that
file is gone, too, together with the entire fonts/psfonts/adobe
directory.
So while it shouldn't be a problem to get a proper license statement for
these files from Sebastian, these files seem to only exist in teTeX and
TeX Live. I still don't know, if they are used anywhere.
cheerio
ralf
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