[Openfontlibrary] On the license of Adobe Utopia font

[Jon Phillips]

Cool project for someone to take on modd'ing this thing and re-licensing
it :) My reading of the license is that any derivative:

* the font would need to be modified (reasonably)
* the font would need to be renamed, or if same name kept, or similar
name, authorization needed by Adobe
* then, group outlined in the license adobe provides, TEX user group,
would need to make another license, preferably OFL which respects
adobe's first license

Sound like a plan? Anyone interested in updating/rescuing this font?

Jon

On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 20:02 -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
> As far as I can understand the Adobe Utopia font
>     (http://tug.org/fonts/utopia ) could be modified and used for
>     designing, for example, OFL font. Could anybody clarify me the terms
>     of this license?
> 
> Well, I'm the one who pushed Adobe into updating the license to make the
> modification status clear(er), but I'm not sure how much clarification I
> can offer.
> 
> I haven't deeply thought about every word of every clause, but I think
> the Utopia license is compatible with the OFL; at least nothing jumps
> out at me as being incompatible.  So I guess you could modify Utopia and
> distribute the result as OFL (your parts) + Utopia (original parts).
> As long as you change all the names to not use the word "Utopia" or
> "Adobe".
> 
> I also guess you should say "Portions of these fonts are:
> Copyright 1989, 1991 Adobe ...
> ... Used under license." as stated in LICENSE-utopia.txt.
> 
> Another (simpler) option is just to keep the whole thing under the
> Utopia license.
> 
> karl
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