Re: nonfree(?) fonts in xfonts-100dpi

2017-03-16 Thread Branden Robinson
Hi dine, I considered this issue back in the day as package maintainer. In the United States and some other jurisdictions, possibly not including Japan[1], bitmap typefaces are not regarded as copyrightable. In fact, typefaces generally aren't--but the "font" that creates them in the form of

nonfree(?) fonts in xfonts-100dpi

2017-03-16 Thread dine
Hi. I just spot an issue in xfonts-100dpi, xfonts-75dpi, and related packages: some of the fonts are free, but the Lucida bitmaps do not allow modification, the same reason the Luxi fonts got marked nonfree 15 years ago. Does Lucida need similar treatment?