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Bug#356853: Scalable LaTeX font: Licensing question regarding ae fonts



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Dear Lars,

"Lars Engebretsen" <lars@engebretsen.se> wrote:

> Basically, I don't really have the energy to care about intricacies of
> licenses, but if you feel that a) you want to do the work and provide
> me with a file that I can then upload to CTAN, and b) that this does
> not change the licensing in such a way that the package can no longer
> be in teTeX and friends, I'm fine with doing the necessary updates.

Your conditions look very reasonable to me. I discussed this with Frank
Küster, and we agreed that using the LPPL (the LaTeX Project Public
License) is probably the most natural choice for the ae package.

I had a look at all source files in order to provide you with a
ready-to-upload tarball (or zip file, whichever is more convenient to
you), but there are a few complications: several files weren't written
by you originally, or have been modified by other people. We need these
people (i.e., the copyright holders of the files) to tell us that they
agree distributing these files under the LPPL.

More precisely, I think it would be wise to use the wording suggested in
the LPPL, i.e. :

  % This work may be distributed and/or modified under the
  % conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
  % of this license or (at your option) any later version.

You can read the whole LPPL text here:

  http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/lppl-1-3c.html


I'll now paste the various contributors I identified, along with the
files they (appear to) hold copyright on:

,----
| Alan Jeffrey
| 
|   src/aelatin.mtx
|   src/aelatint.mtx
|   src/aet1.etx
|   src/ot1tt.etx
| 
| 
| Matthias Koeppe
| 
|   src/aelatin.mtx
| 
| 
| Sebastian Rahtz
| 
|   src/aet1.etx
| 
| 
| Denis Roegel
| 
|   tex/aecompl.sty
| 
| 
| Rolf Niepraschk
| 
|   tex/ae.sty
| 
| 
| Gilbert Ritschard
| 
|   tex/ae.sty
`----

Do you want me to contact these people, or do you prefer taking care of
that yourself?

In the latter case, I can provide you with their email addresses, as I
have collected them as part of my little investigation.

Many thanks for your cooperation.

Regards,

-- 
Florent

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