Bug#491354: texlive-fonts-extra: No license statement for wsuipa fonts
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> On Fr, 18 Jul 2008, Frank Küster wrote:
>> Upstream just notified us that (some or all, not checked) files in
>> /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/source/public/wsuipa/ are missing a
>> license statement. Karl Berry said that he once knew the author in
>> person, but I'm sure he won't try to contact him before the release of
>> TeXLive 2008.
>
> Right, but since these fonts use the cm metafont program I assume they
> cannot be under a commercial copyright??? Karl?
They can, since cm is in the public domain, not LPPL or GPL or similar.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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