Debian Bug report logs - #406530
tetex-base: unclear license and origin situation of Base 35 PS fonts

Package: texlive-fonts-recommended; Maintainer for texlive-fonts-recommended is Debian TeX Task Force <[email protected]>; Source for texlive-fonts-recommended is src:texlive-base (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Frank Küster <[email protected]>

Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 15:18:01 UTC

Severity: important

Merged with 366842

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Ralf Stubner <[email protected]> wrote:

> I did check CTAN CD sets from 1999, 2000, and 2001. In 1999 these files
> were part off PSNFSS, which was still maintained by Sebastion Rahtz at
> that time. They could be found in fonts/psfonts/adobe/courier.zip,
> fonts/psfonts/lw35nfss.zip, macros/latex/required/psnfss/lw35nfss.zip.
> No license statement in the accompanying README files etc. :-(
>
> In 2000 Walter took aver maintaining PSNFSS and these files could no
> longer be found in macros/latex/required/psnfss/lw35nfss.zip. 
[...]
> So while it shouldn't be a problem to get a proper license statement for
> these files from Sebastian,

Knock on wood...

> these files seem to only exist in teTeX and
> TeX Live. I still don't know, if they are used anywhere.

Why not simply ask Walter why he removed them?

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




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