I am the culprit who removed the copyright notice from the files from 
ttfps which are used in ttftool, I have done so without a malicious 
intent, after some deliberation in the light of the "licence" with which 
the program comes. The readme file from the package contains the 
following statement:

<quote>
Copying
*******

This software is provided with no guarantee, not even of any kind.

Feel free to do whatever you wish with it as long as you don't ask me
to maintain it.
</quote>

I understood this as implying two things: (1) the code was placed 
into a public domain; the statement effectively renders the copyright 
notices meaningless, because "whatever" includes the removal of 
them. (2) the author wanted to pretty much disassociate himself 
from any responsibility for code once released.

Having extended the code, I assumed that the author would not want 
to be associated with any new bugs, and felt it appropriate to 
remove the copyright notices; without this step the author would 
have been likely receiving numerous bug reports and requests for 
enhacement.

Not having included the author in AW credits list was a _bad_ 
oversight, for which I appologize. I am also more than happy to have 
the (c) lines included back in the files. However, I would like to point 
out, without trying to excuse bad error of judgement on my part, that 
if a persons wishes to maintain intellectual rights on software they 
write and distribute, they do have to include meaningful licence; the 
statement in the ttfps readme does not fall into that category.

Tomas Frydrych

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