On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 15:24:29 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > n...@dismail.de (12020-04-27): > > b) The texlive Courier fonts are the digitalised version released by > > IBM themselves under some free font license > > How did you obtain that information? AFAICS, the Courier fonts in > TeXlive are the Adobe and URW variants.
https://www.ctan.org/pkg/courier The font is in Adobe's Postscript Type 1 format, but IBM is listed as copyright holder and maintainer. Wikipedia also seems to agree with IBM having released a Type 1 Courier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courier_%28typeface%29#IBM_Courier