[Openfontlibrary] urw donated or not

[Christopher Fynn]

I seem to recall that in early versions of Ghostscript
the URW fonts had a *much* more restricted licence
- but they were distributed "free of charge"

Question - did Artifex pay only to get the licence changed
to GPL or did they pay URW to allow the earlier
"free of charge"  distribution

- Chris

minombresbond wrote:
> the urw font package is one of the best quality collection of
> free-as-freedom fonts, gplized for the ghostscript project
> 
> the people say on the web that these sources were *donated* by urw
> 
> but, in the Raph Levin blog in advocato I found:
> http://www.advogato.org/person/raph/diary/257.html
> 
> "By the way, URW did not donate these fonts under the GPL out of their
> own hearts. Artifex paid good money for them, and donated them out of a
> mix of self-interest and altruism."
> 
> Is this really the case?
> 
> thanks!
> 

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