Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> the package claims in its copyright file:
>   These fonts were converted from the LaTeX .pfb forms,
>   and are under the respective licenses of the sources.
>   
> In this case, it would be good if it would be created from the
> .pfb-forms "on the fly" during compilation - bugs like 388795 could be
> fixed by that way better.

fontforge can probably do that (even automatable, it can be called on
the commandline).

> (I'm even wondering if #388795 is not a license violation, as I'm quite
> sure without looking the original fonts include "]".)

You might be right, because

,----
| [...] the AMS does require that the AMS copyright notice be removed
| from any derivative versions of the fonts which have been altered in
| any way.
`----

However, I don't know whether forgetting one character qualifies as a
derivative version, instead of just being a bug...

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

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