[OpenFontLibrary] What licenses do we accept?
nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Wed Jul 15 09:09:37 PDT 2009
>
> Hi, Nicolas et al.,
>
>>>
>>> Do the Adobe-licensed-to-TeX Utopia fonts exist in a TrueType or
>>> OpenType packaging?
>>
>> Heuristica is a transformation to OpenType (CFF & TT)
>> ftp://ftp.dvo.ru/pub/Font/heuristica/
>>
>> It's been relicensed to the OFL, which seemed compatible with the TUG
>> grant when we looked at it.
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452317
>
> OK, I just checked in Fontaine SVN version no. 27 which now detects
> Adobe's license to TUG for the Utopia family. Tested using
> Heuristica.
>
> The license fields in the Heuristica font files indeed contain the
> original Abobe-TUG license wording, "Copyright (c) 1989, 1991 Adobe
> Systems Incorporated. All Rights ..."
>
> If this font is really and legitimately licensed under OFL, then
> shouldn't the license field just say OFL?
Feel free to ask it of the font author:p
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