[OpenFontLibrary] What licenses do we accept?

[Ed Trager]

The Yanone fonts have a similar problem: web page says "CC" (Generic
CC) but the font header only says

  "Copyright (c) Yanone, 2005. All rights reserved."

... so the font file itself fails to identify a license as far as I can see.


On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:09 PM, <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:
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>> Hi, Nicolas et al.,
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>>>> Do the Adobe-licensed-to-TeX Utopia fonts exist in a TrueType or
>>>> OpenType packaging?
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>>> Heuristica is a transformation to OpenType (CFF & TT)
>>> ftp://ftp.dvo.ru/pub/Font/heuristica/
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>>> It's been relicensed to the OFL, which seemed compatible with the TUG
>>> grant when we looked at it.
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> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452317
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>> 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.
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>> 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 ..."
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>> If this font is really and legitimately licensed under OFL, then
>> shouldn't the license field just say OFL?
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> Feel free to ask it of the font author:p
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