On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 18:44 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
