[tex-live] Re: non-free fonts

Roozbeh Pournader roozbeh@sharif.edu
Sat, 12 Oct 2002 20:43:46 +0330 (IRT)


On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Karl Berry wrote:

> If there's agreement ... can we ask the ctan folks to move those fonts
> to nonfree, [...]?

Definitely no! CTAN's nonfree means restrictions in use or redistribution,
but not modification. See <http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/#licence>:

  Note that distributions whose licences are the non-`Debian'-free 
  category nosource is not moved to the nonfree/ tree; CTAN is concerned 
  with distributability, rather than the broader modifiability, etc., 
  that the free software movement seeks.

roozbeh