Re: ConTeXt T-shirts?

[Xan <dxpublica@telefonica.net>]

En/na Hans Hagen ha escrit:
> Xan wrote:
>> En/na Taco Hoekwater ha escrit:
>>> For Xan:
>>>
>>> Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>>  
>>>> % You are free to use this code any way you can
>>>>     
>>>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>
>>> license
>>>   
>> So public domain.
>>
>> But
>> % Copyright 2008 Taco Hoekwater
>>
>> so, it's really "CC Atribution 3.0 unported" 
>> [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0]
>>
>> What this copyright means?
>> Sorry for the "nuissance" ;-)
>
> we're talking about the cowfonts?
>
In this message we are talking about the license of the code of Taco for 
doing in Metafun the wiki logo....

> we've put them in the distribution because
>
> - we liked them
> - we wanted the wiki to use them (which is why there are some 
> ligatures) but no one did that yet
> - we needed some funny font that related to context
>
> also, some day we might make aan open type variant with features
>
> now, one can use the font the way she/he wants but there is some 
> restriction on messing around: the design/idea is copyrighted and so 
> we don't want additional cows to show up in (a patched) font and this 
> is why they're in non-free, not because they're not free, but because 
> they should not be messed with (don't mess with animals)
>
But good thing you talk about why cowfonts are non-free.... now I know 
one more thing ;-)

For the other hand, the code suggest by Taco:

\usesymbols[cow] \symbol[CowConTeXt] % IIRC

does not work for me (I get "CowConTeXt" in pdf file). What fails?

Regards,
Xan.


> Hans
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