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+# README for the `mfnfss' bundle  (December 2017)
+
+This "bundle" consists of a few old LaTeX2e packages written to
+support some metafont based fonts within NFSS. In the early days of
+LaTeX2e it was part of the required setup for LaTeX.
+
+## IMPORTANT NOTICE 
+
+The files in this bundle are no longer maintainted by the LaTeX Team!
+So I (Frank) have picked them up to give the sources a new home, but I
+do not expect to do much maintenance on them (if any).
+
+If you actually want to use the Pandora fonts, you have to invest a a
+bit of work as the fonts themselves aren't distributed these days by
+most distributions because of license issues (they aren't allowed for
+commercial use so aren't "free" by some standard (they are on CTAN
+though, so it is possible to install them). *Please do not ask me how
+to do that with your installation!*
+
+For the old German fonts from Yannis the situation is somewhat better:
+so the `oldgerm` package should work out of the box with most or
+all distributions.
+
+The file `manifest.txt` contains a list of the main files in the
+distribution together with a short summary of each file.
+
+The files are licensed under [LPPL](https://www.latex-project.org/lppl/).
+
+Frank Mittelbach
+