Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 08:59:32AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> >> I'm also not sure whether the embedded fonts are free. > >> > Since this is (at present) only an uncertainty with no particular evidence >> > that they aren't free, this is also not an RC bug. > >> Hm, well, the fonts claim to be "TimesNewRomanPSMT" and similar, the MT >> probably stands for MonoType. I have never heard that these fonts are >> available freely (as in speech) anywhere. But I'm not going to argue >> with RMs here. > > Sorry, I understood from your message that you didn't /know/ these finds, > not that you knew them and had reason to believe they weren't freely > available. If there is a reason to think they're not freely distributable, > then that is of course an RC bug as well.
I must correct what I wrote in the last mail. The Times, Courier and Arial fonts are *not* embedded, it just takes the ones that the PDF viewer provides. Embedded are only Wingdings-Regular, SymbolMT and a Courier variant. There are in fact DFSG-free fonts called Courier, and I'm unsure about Monotype Symbol. I would be surprised if there was a Wingdings font that is DFSG free, but I won't swear on that. And anyway, I guess all these fonts are distributable. They are just not modifyable. Again, I'm unsure what that means for etch. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
