License problems [arabtex]

[Richard Graham]

Perhaps the contact info on his webpage is current?

http://joelmhoffman.com/Contact.html

On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 1:50 PM Dr. Werner Fink <werner at suse.de> wrote:
>
> On 2022/05/02 15:54:07 -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
> >     Seems so as this is from arabtex.doc/doc/latex/arabtex/arabtex.faq
> >     from 1993 ... don't know who has added lppt.txt afterwards
> >
> > The author (Lagally), I believe. My understanding is that the package is
> > under the LPPL and that stray statement in the FAQ is obsolete.
> > I wrote Prof. Lagally to confirm/deny this.
> >
> > The font files (hcaption.mf hcbase.mf hclassic.mf) were evidently
> > created by one Joel M. Hoffman in Rye, New York, circa 1991. I haven't
> > found a way to contact him yet. If anyone else has any luck searching,
> > please let me know. Anyway, I'll remove those files if too much time goes
> > by without any success, lacking any other course of action :(.
>
> The only more modern address I see is joel at wam.umd.edu in hcbase.mf
> ... compuserve and bitnet are somehow out of date.  Nevertheless
> since 1991/05/15 is a lot of time and I've no idea if he is still
> at the University of Maryland (guess no).  The last left marks are
>
>  Syntactic and paratactic word order effects
>  A dissertation on word order patterns cross-linguistically.
>  Non-ARHU Contributor(s): Joel M. Hoffman
>  Dates: Mon, 01/01/1996 - 12:00
>  A dissertation on word order patterns cross-linguistically.
>
> at https://linguistics.umd.edu/research?search=&unit=&expertise=All&output_type=All&page=35
> ... and maybe he is the person here at https://blog.joelmhoffman.com/
> at least the description might fit.
>
> Werner
>
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