IIJIMA Hiromitsu
delmo****@ht*****
2003年 6月 27日 (金) 21:58:12 JST
いいじまです。みなさまおつかれさまです。 > 日本語版の修正に合わせて変更し、 > http://khdd.net/kanou/fonts/stolenbitmap.en.html に置きました。 GNU intlfonts の関係者に読んでもらうことを前提に、日本語の文章にはない 情報も交えて、すこし追加の文章を書いてみました。 事実誤認とか文法的におかしいとかありましたらご指摘ください。 ────１．──── The font is broadly used in a number of packages. →The font in itself and many derivarates from this font are broadly used in a number of packages, including: * GNU intlfonts 1.2 (as Japanese.BIG/j83-32.bdf) * Kochi Fonts (a free Japanese TrueType/PostScript font whose design is based on the "Watanabe font", and now widely used for Ghostscript and many other applications) ────２．──── Note that although this bitmap font is referred as "Watanabe font", named after Mr. Masatoshi Watanabe, HE DID NOT DO THIS UNAUTHORIZED COPY, BUT JUST CONVERTED A FONT WHICH WAS ALREADY MADE PUBLIC AS FREE, in order to use it with his JaWaTeX (a Japanized TeX system). ────３．──── <h2>Impacts</h2> <h3>GNU intlfonts</h3> 1. We are currently contacting Free Software Foundation to eliminate the 32x32 bitmap from GNU intlfonts package. <!-- FSF への連絡はどなたかお願いできますでしょうか。 http://www.gnu.org/directory/intlfonts.html を見ると産総研の半田 さんのお名前があがっているのですが、連絡先は半田さん？ それとも、 Janet Casey さんという名前が挙がっているのですが、このかたでしょ うか？ --> 2. We would like you all to suspend the redistribution of files containing j83-32.bdf (namely, intlfonts-1.2.tar.gz, 32dots.tar.gz and Japanese.BIG.tar.gz), until the new version of intlfonts with that file eliminated is released. Note that * other Japanese fonts in intlfonts, such as 24-dot or 48-dot ones, are NOT AFFECTED by this issue. * 32dots.tar.gz contains only this font, and therefore it can be totally discontinued. * the files in Japanese.BIG.tar.gz other than j83-32.bdf are also available from 40dots.tar.gz or 48dots.tar.gz, therefore suspending Japanese.BIG.tar.gz will not leave these fonts unavailable. <h3>Kochi Fonts and its derivatives</h3> Redistribution of Kochi Fonts and their derivatives are now suspended and these fonts are about to be substituted by new ones based on the fonts developed in Professor Eiichi Wada's Laboratory, University of Tokyo (currently <a href="http://www.ipl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/">Information Processing Laboratory</a>). ======================================================================== 飯嶋 浩光 / でるもんた・いいじま http://www.ht.sakura.ne.jp/~delmonta/ IIJIMA Hiromitsu, aka Delmonta mailto:delmo****@ht*****
