On Jan 25, 2008 2:43 PM, dpvc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
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> > 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
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