On Jan 25, 2008 2:43 PM, dpvc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > If I understand things correctly, the fonts up at > > http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/download/jsMath-fonts.html are > > based on the Bakoma fonts, and the license quoted above is the Bakoma > > fonts license. If you look at the "original Bakoma fonts" link at the > > jsMath fonts page, you'll see inside the zip file a file named > > BaKoMa-CM.Fonts, which contains the license agreement (and is quoted above). > > You are right that the original jsMath fonts were the BaKoMa fonts, > but that is no longer the case. The encoding used by the BaKoMa fonts > turned out to be problematic, and so I made my own versions using > mftrace directly from the Computer Modern metafont files. So the > BaKoMa copyright no longer applies. > > The Computer Modern fonts were put into the public domain by Knuth > (see http://www.ntg.nl/maps/pdf/5_34.pdf), so I don't think there is > any problem using these versions in Sage.
Hi Davide, Thanks for your very helpful answer. So to be crystal, are the files TeX-fonts-n.zip listed here http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/download/jsMath-fonts.html public domain? -- William > > > 1. Davide does not distribute this license agreement (or any other) with > > his modified versions of the Bakoma fonts. Does that mean he claims the > > copyright and he is the only one we need to work with for redistribution? > > No, I don't claim copyright. > > > 2. If the license agreement of the original Bakoma fonts is the one in > > effect, then it sounds like we might have to work with them as well as > > Davide to okay the redistribution of his modified fonts. > > No, BoKoMa is no longer involved, as these are unrelated to their > versions of the fonts. > > Davide > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---