[tex-live] EC license

Alexander Cherepanov cherepan at mccme.ru
Mon Aug 31 00:04:56 CEST 2009


Hi Reinhard!
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:33:31 +0200, Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:

>  > 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

That's definitely not a problem;)

> I'll go to EuroTeX tomorrow and most likely I'll be offline for a
> week.

Happy EuroTeXing:-)

Alexander Cherepanov




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