Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cbosgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!mark From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) Newsgroups: net.unix,net.micro.pc Subject: Re: Venix86 Users Group News Message-ID: <533@cbosgd.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 16:21:37 EST Article-I.D.: cbosgd.533 Posted: Fri Nov 30 16:21:37 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Dec-84 20:20:11 EST References: <417@wlcrjs.UUCP> <261@rlgvax.UUCP> <4700@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Columbus Lines: 28 Summary: vtroff really originated at Toronto In article <4700@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes: >Well, that's better than Berkeley usually does. You won't even find >comments in the source to indicate that the original vtroff software >came from U of Toronto. Which is an out-and-out violation of U of T's >software licence, which requires credit in all re-use. >-- > Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology > {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry This is probably my fault. I wrote the Berkeley Font Catalog and did a lot of the font work. I probably should have credited Toronto as the source of the original software and the Hershey fonts. (I think in turn the fonts came from the USA dept of something or other.) What happened is that I never saw a license from Toronto for that stuff, and until I read this netnews article I didn't know such a license existed. I was not the original recipient of the stuff from Toronto - I'm not sure who was. In any case, it just never occurred to me to insert an acknowledgement to Toronto, or to MIT and Stanford from whence most of the rest of the fonts came. Things were different back then, you just passed software around and didn't worry too much about where it came from. So I hereby publicly apologise to the University of Toronto for not crediting them as the original source of the vtroff software. Mark Horton