[OpenFontLibrary] What licenses do we accept?

[Khaled Hosny]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 06:02:55PM +0200, nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:28:28AM -0400, Ed Trager wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Nicolas
> 
> >> Do the Adobe-licensed-to-TeX Utopia fonts exist in a TrueType or
> >> OpenType packaging?  Fontaine's current code looks only at the SFNT
> >> structures in TrueType/OpenType fonts.  Would anyone produce a new or
> >> new derivative work in only the PS Type 1 format?  I hope not ...
> >
> > AMS fonts version 3.1 (released few weeks ago) is now OFL licensed.
> > http://www.ams.org/tex/amsfonts.html
> 
> Just proves you can rely on TeXies to keep obsolete font formats alive
> long after their peremption date.

There are old TeX engines that aren't going anywhere anytime soon, since
those system do what their users want for decades now, why bother
replacing them. Converting Type1 fonts to OpenType isn't that simple,
and there is little gain to justify the effort (from TeX point of view)
and thus I expect these fonts to stay around for longer time.

Regards,
 Khaled


-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer
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