[OpenFontLibrary] What licenses do we accept?

Ed Trager ed.trager at gmail.com
Wed Jul 15 13:34:42 PDT 2009


OK, everyone,

Fontaine revision 29 now adds GUST font license detection too ...

Best - Ed

2009/7/15 Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>:
> Le mercredi 15 juillet 2009 à 15:12 -0400, Ed Trager a écrit :
>
>> > - GUST
>>
>> *NOT* ADDED.  Are there any GUST fonts in TTF or OTF format?
>
> Lots
> http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/whole
>
> Though unfortunately they derived GPL ghostscript fonts and slapped
> their own license on the result (and seem decided to go on at all costs)
>
> IIRC some other GUST fonts are also released in OpenType format, and
> should not be problematic, for example
>
> http://nowacki.strefa.pl/torunska-e.html
> http://nowacki.strefa.pl/poltawski-e.html
> http://nowacki.strefa.pl/kurier.html
>
> It's such a pity the GUST guys seem to have no legal sense, their font
> work is great
>
>
> --
> Nicolas Mailhot
>


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