On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
"Daniel" == Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org> writes:> Right. As I said earlier, it's probably tied up somewhere deep > within TOG: no-one still involved with X today remembers this at > all. Maybe it is sufficient to find someone at X.org who is willing to care about the legal stuff. It is a great advantage that Thanh found someone at Adobe who remembers. > So, unless you really, really, really, really, really, > really need these fonts, it's not going to be worth the effort. There are some reasons why it's worth some effort: [...]
This is another good example of the need for sunset provisions to ensure that intellectual property doesn't become unavailable due to demise and/or lack of interest of the owner.
Lacking such provisions, the effort might be used better to extend thevirtual font mechanism to allow someone to create a new Type 1 font defining additional or replacement glyphs that will be used in combination
with some existing font. This would be sufficiently useful outside theTeX community that I think it stands a good chance of getting broad support. One way to implement this would be to generate a temporary local
type 1 font, so the magic would all be hidden in mktfm without the need to change pdfviewers, ghostscript, etc. -- George N. White III <aa056@chebucto.ns.ca>