[tex-live] EC license
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Sat Aug 29 23:33:31 CEST 2009
On 29 August 2009 Alexander Cherepanov wrote:
> Hi Reinhard!
> On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:57:18 +0200, Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:
>
> > > * The names of the modified fonts must not start with the two
> > > letters `ec' or `tc'.
> >
> > This is fine. It's what everybody expect.
>
> Sure, maintaning sane namespace is vital. But license is a wrong tool
> for that. First, it doesn't work. Look, FSF says that the renaming
> requirement is acceptable for latex only because it's easy to overcome
> (see http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/#LPPL-1.2 ). And, of course,
> a license of EC fonts doesn't have any say in naming of independently
> created fonts.
Hi Alexander,
you are raising some interesting points. I can't reply now because
I'll go to EuroTeX tomorrow and most likely I'll be offline for a
week.
Regards,
Reinhard
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