At 12:16 1998-12-02 +0100, Hans Aberg wrote:

>At 09:57 +0000 1998/12/02, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

>>Mark Steinberger writes:

>> > The AMS has done one important thing that seems counter to the
>> > interests of its publishing arm: bringing the postscript type 1 CM and
>> > AMS fonts into the public domain.

>>I don't think they are in the public domain, if I may quibble :-}

>I recall they are: BlueSky (who sells the MacOS TeX program Textures)
>originally developed these commercially, as AMS felt they did could not
>afford that.

I am not sure whether AMS even considered it at the time (1988-1992).
It was not the `next obvious thing to do'.  In fact, while it may be hard to
imagine now, there was a lot of resistance to PS, and even more
resistance to Type 1 fonts.

>Later these were released for free use by a joint agreement
>between BlueSky and AMS.

To be more precise, from http://www.ams.org/index/tex/type1-cm-fonts.html

> The PostScript Type 1 implementation of the Computer Modern and AMSFonts produced
> by and previously distributed by Blue Sky Research and Y&Y, Inc., are now freely available
> for general use. This has been accomplished through the cooperation of a consortium of
> scientific publishers with Blue Sky Research and Y&Y. Members of this consortium include:

>    Elsevier Science
>    IBM Corporation
>    Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
>    Springer-Verlag
>    American Mathematical Society (AMS)

> ...


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