On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 11:12 +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > Hi Drew, > > On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:19:37 +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > While it's good to see that MathML support is improved (such that we > > don't need these fonts for that purpose), I'd like to heartily give my > > support for keeping this font package in working order! > > Thanks, but it depends heavily on Wolfram Research Inc. > if I can keep maintaining the package or not. > > > It's importance for me is that we have access to Mathematica installed on > > the central university computer. When I run it from a terminal on my > > computer, Mathematica complains about fonts not being available. So > > this is an example of why the ttf-mathematica4.1 is very important! > > Are you sure the above kind of use of the fonts is legal > use of Mathematica fonts? > (Further, I'm afraid the above needs might be so small.) >
Their licence states clearly that any individual can download the fonts. http://support.wolfram.com/technotes/latestfonts.en.html "WRI licenses Mathematica fonts to individual users downloading from this site." This says to me that our ttf-mathematica package is perfectly legimate as a package in contrib. That is, it is a convenience package which provides a tool which makes it easier for individuals to download and install the fonts, which WRI has licensed them, as individuals, to do. We could ensure that the debconf message clearly states that only individuals may use the package (so that sysadmins using it on central computers will have to answer 'no', which could be the default response). Certainly WRI forbids us from distributing the fonts themselves. But treating this package as a convenience tool which individuals may use, which helps them use their legal rights (downloading the files), that sounds like a proper role for a package in contrib. > In the above example, I guess Mathematica7.0 fonts (not 4.1) > will be okay but then the package should be ttf-mathematica > and install the (latest?) available Mathematica fonts. > (For MathML with old iceweasel/firefox, only Mathematica4.1 > fonts are acceptable, as far as I understand.) Yes, a ttf-mathematica (or perhaps ttf-mathematica7) would make sense. > In any case, the most biggest problem for the pakage is > if WRI keeps the fonts on their website with an appropriate > license. True. But at the moment the fonts are available for download by individuals. Providing a "script" (which is essentially all that the ttf-mathematica package is) to help them do that doesn't break the licence, since we're not redistributing the fonts themselves. Drew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
