Status of Lucida and Y&Y TeX

[Paulo Ney de Souza]

Karl,

Will this new licensing apply to MathTime as well ? I use to by
the fonts from Y&Y, then this past Jan we bought a set from Blue
Sky Res. and upon reading the licesning a bit more careful, they
do NOT allow one to use it on any machine besides Macs.

I then try to switch o the new set MathTimePro that is being
peddled by PCTeX here in San Francisco, but after trying to
produce our first book with it, I satared seeing the flaws of
the font-set and they are fairly close to being a defective
font-set... and not anything that you can use professionaly.

Paulo Ney de Souza

    >From owner-yandytex at LISTS.UCC.IE  Wed Jul 27 17:58:37 2005
    >From: Karl Berry <karl at FREEFRIENDS.ORG>
    >Subject: Re: Status of Lucida and Y&Y TeX
    >To: YANDYTEX at LISTS.UCC.IE
    >
    >Hi Mike and all,
    >
    >Since you asked, I guess it is time for a status report ...
    >
    >    Can those working behind the scenes report any progress on making the
    >    Lucida font set available again?
    >
    >I guess I can report some progress -- Chuck Bigelow and I have drafted
    >an agreement on allowing TUG to resell the Lucida fonts which were
    >previously sold by Y&Y.  Lawyers on both sides have seen it at this
    >point, there appear to be no remaining insuperable barriers, but it is
    >still not quite final, there are a few more steps to take.
    >
    >It will also take some time to put together exactly what we will
    >distribute, the license terms we have to pass on to end-users, etc.
    >So I can't really give a date when they will be available again.  But
    >it appears that it will happen ...
    >
    >    Also, it would be of interest to know whether any progress has been
    >    made on saving Y&Y TeX itself (or at least some components of it) as
    >    an open-source project.
    >
    >Happily, progress has been made (thanks to Blenda), but I'd like to beg
    >your patience for another little while while we take care of some final
    >details before making a public announcement on this front.  Hopefully it
    >won't be too long ...
    >
    >Best regards,
    >Karl
    >