Since URW is the original copyright holder, the solution would be for URW to either relicense the fonts themselves e.g. under LPPL or OFL - whaterver FOSS license works best for fonts, or to give special permission, i.e. an exclusive license, to GUST do so... I doubt URW would care much either way after almost 20 years since these fonts have GPL'd. But they need to be approached about the matter. I guess Tom knows better what's the optimal way out in a situation like this. On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Dave Crossland <dave@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2008/7/24 Dave Crossland <dave@xxxxxxxx>: >> 2008/7/24 Dave Crossland <dave@xxxxxxxx>: >>> 2008/7/24 Vasile Gaburici <vgaburici@xxxxxxxxx>: >>>> I suspect that their fonts are based on the visual designs, but not >>>> raw data of the URW fonts, otherwise GUST would be bound by the GPL, >>> >>> I think the GUST guys have infringed the GPL. Not 100% sure, but I think so :( >> >> Okay, I looked into it and it seems to be true. >> http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/adventor/qag1.104bas.zip >> which has /doc/fonts/tex-gyre/README-TeX-Gyre-Adventor.txt which says: > > In fact its even more explicit in that file: > > "TeX Gyre Adventor is based on the URW Gothic L distributed under > GPL with Ghostscript." > > and then > > "The TeX Gyre Adventor family can be freely used and distributed > under the GUST Font License (see above) which is actually > an instance of the LaTeX Project Public License" > > Madness! :-) > > _______________________________________________ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
