Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> writes:
>> I think "so poorly documented that in practice almost no one can
>> understand how it works" still can't qualify as "in effect
>> proprietary".
>
> It is not *that* badly documented. However, the number of people who
> understand Metafont are rather small today.
git shortlog -sn mf/
459 Han-Wen Nienhuys
160 Jan Nieuwenhuizen
104 Werner Lemberg
20 Jürgen Reuter
16 Carl D. Sorensen
15 Janek Warchoł
11 Mats Bengtsson
7 Bertrand Bordage
7 Maximilian Albert
4 David Kastrup
4 Graham Percival
4 John Mandereau
4 Phil Holmes
4 Tom Cato Amundsen
3 Erlend Aasland
3 Marc Hohl
3 Patrick McCarty
3 Reinhold Kainhofer
3 Rune Zedeler
2 Aleksandr Andreev
2 Neil Puttock
1 Benkő Pál
1 Carsten Steger
1 Glen Prideaux
1 Julien Rioux
1 Mark Polesky
1 Michael Welsh Duggan
1 Nicolas Sceaux
Some of those will have worked on the build system rather than the fonts
themselves, but I doubt that all of those working on the fonts had
previous exposure to Metafont/Metapost.
--
David Kastrup
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