Re: stix fonts license and TeX

Ralf Stubner wrote:
Frank Mittelbach <frank.mittelbach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
b) accept the license and set up a scheme by which the fonts are not distributed directly but downloaded for inclusion (like the euro fonts from Adobe and some others) afterwards so that users are aware of the difference but still nearly immediately able to benefit from them 

Something like this is straightforward for distributions of free
operating systems, but difficult for TeX distributions if they try to
support different platforms: One can right a shell script which does
much of the work, but that won't work on Windows. Besides, I hope that
this

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| When the beta version of the STIX Fonts is available for download,
| this license will appear as a "click through" page that must be
| accepted in order to download a free copy of the fonts.
`----

will be restricted to the beta versions. A "click through" page would
really complicate things.

From what I recall of the license (it's been a few days since I read it and sent off a comment saying essentially "this appears to be a problem; I'm not qualified to talk about the details, but the compatibility matters a lot to me, so please talk to the appropriate parties about the details to fix it"), it would permit redistributing the fonts through the "non-free" side of CTAN -- which would make STIX's click-through somewhat irrelevant for such things, as the script would not need to deal with the STIX site directly.

- Brooks


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