[tex-live] getnonfreefonts-sys doesn't update updmap.cfg?

Ralf Stubner ralf.stubner at web.de
Wed Jan 10 22:03:32 CET 2007


Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk> writes:
> Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>
>> There are a few things I plan to do in the space of time between TL
>> will be frozen and it will be released: Rolf Niepraschk and Karl asked
>> for inclusion of URW Classico, an Optima clone which is under AFPL.
>
> I would like to raise an ethical question here (as opposed to
> an ethical objection).  Is the general consensus that it is
> right to include a "free" clone of a copyrighted font,
> and if so, on what basis ?

AFAIK URW Classico is actually the result of a cooperation between HZ
and URW. Same for URW Palladio. So at least here I do not see any
ethical problems. 

cheerio
ralf


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