[Openfontlibrary] On the license of Adobe Utopia font

[Jon Phillips]

Can someone introduce me to him as well? I just arrived back in SF and
have a meeting at Adobe on 30th and live 1.5 blocks from their office...

Jon

On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 19:06 -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
> Thomas Phinney, product Manager Fonts @ Adobe left this comment on our 
>     blogpost on the possible re-licensing of Utopia:
> 
>     > Well, gosh, just drop me an email and we can talk. :)
> 
> Very cool.  Phinney was one of the people in the loop on the whole
> previous discussion, as I recall.  I don't mind writing him, assuming I
> can dig up his email somewhere.
> 
>     For typographers & designers it would be really exciting if Utopia (and 
>     others!) would be available as source -- 
> 
> I've never seen anything but the pfb's.  I doubt you'd lose much by
> starting with them instead of sitting around waiting for lawyers to do
> their thing.
> 
>     but to be able to make a derivative work, it's license needs to
>     allow more than just the freedom to add glyphs.
> 
> The existing LICENSE-utopia absolutely *does* allow much more freedom
> than merely adding glyphs.  It allows you do anything you want,
> basically, except call your modified version "Utopia".  Read it.
> 
> karl
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