Bug#345604: [Fontinst] License of the fontinst documentation
Ulrik Vieth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for licensing, I never bothered to define any specifc license for the documents. As far as I know, they have been available on CTAN since fontinst-prerelease-1.914 in November 1999. (I just checked the CTAN CD 2000, which shows a filedate of Nov 16 1999 for doc/talks.) As for sources, I may still have them somewhere on my local machine, but they were never released, partly because the fonts required to typeset the documents are non-free (Lucida Bright) and partly because the PDF doucments are the final form intended for consumption. Then we cannot distribute the document in Debian main, anyway. But of course we need a permission to distribute them (putting them on CTAN could also mean that you want them to be available only there, but not redistributed by anyone). That's just legalese crap^Wformalities, but that's how it is. Just answering Yes, you have that permission is probably sufficient, but in the long run such statement should be included in the fontinst distribution. As for roadmap.eps, the diagram was presumably created by Alan Jeffrey and has been part of earlier fontinst distributions since 1995. The orignal source of the EPS may have been created with xfig, since the archive copy of fontinst-1.504 contains a file roadmap.fig along with roadmap.eps, which can be found here: ftp://ftp.tug.org/historic/fonts/utilities/fontinst/fontinst-1.504/doc/ Ah, that's great. Please let me know, if you need and further statement of clarification regarding the licensing isseue. As for the documentation, only a formal statement that redistribution is unlimited (and I hope that also extends to the included fonts). Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
Bug#345604: [Fontinst] License of the fontinst documentation
Ulrik Vieth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please let me know, if you need and further statement of clarification regarding the licensing isseue. Regarding the pdf files see my other mail. But the files in the doc/encspecs/ and examples directories, and most importantly the manual does not contain any license statement, just the authors/Copyright lines. Therefore from a legal point of view nobody is even allowed to distribute them. I suggest to add a file COPYING along with fontinst/README that lists all files in the distribution and says something like , | All files in the fontinst distribution may be used, modified and | distributed according to the terms of the LPPL, either version | whatyouchoose or later, or the version indicated in the individual | files. ` Thanks in advance, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
Bug#345604: [Fontinst] License of the fontinst documentation
Frank Küster wrote: But there's also files in the talks subdirectory for which no source is currently available. Do you know about the license situation for them, or should I try to contact Ulrik or Taco? And, for that matter, I guess roadmap.eps has been created with MetaPost - do you happen to have the sources available? I completely forgot I helped with that talk. The documents were prepared by Ulrik (I do not have sources and am not an author). Taco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#345604: [Fontinst] License of the fontinst documentation
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Frank Küster wrote: But there's also files in the talks subdirectory for which no source is currently available. Do you know about the license situation for them, or should I try to contact Ulrik or Taco? And, for that matter, I guess roadmap.eps has been created with MetaPost - do you happen to have the sources available? I completely forgot I helped with that talk. The documents were prepared by Ulrik (I do not have sources and am not an author). Hi Frank, I prepared the documents for a presentation at EuroTeX 99 and Taco assisted with the presentation. Therefore his name was on it as well. As for licensing, I never bothered to define any specifc license for the documents. As far as I know, they have been available on CTAN since fontinst-prerelease-1.914 in November 1999. (I just checked the CTAN CD 2000, which shows a filedate of Nov 16 1999 for doc/talks.) As for sources, I may still have them somewhere on my local machine, but they were never released, partly because the fonts required to typeset the documents are non-free (Lucida Bright) and partly because the PDF doucments are the final form intended for consumption. As for roadmap.eps, the diagram was presumably created by Alan Jeffrey and has been part of earlier fontinst distributions since 1995. The orignal source of the EPS may have been created with xfig, since the archive copy of fontinst-1.504 contains a file roadmap.fig along with roadmap.eps, which can be found here: ftp://ftp.tug.org/historic/fonts/utilities/fontinst/fontinst-1.504/doc/ Please let me know, if you need and further statement of clarification regarding the licensing isseue. Ulrik Vieth
