Re: GUST fonts

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On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Nicolas Mailhot
<nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Le vendredi 30 juillet 2010 à 13:18 -0400, TK009 a écrit :
>> I like the fonts and have packaged them for myself already. I didn't
>> think they could be packaged do to conflicting licenses. If they can
>> be packaged as is, I am all for that, I didn't believe they could be
>> without creator intervention. Regarding the emails I sent, I am very
>> far from a zealot so I included no freetardiness in them. I was very
>> polite and respectful.
>
> I didn't say you were, it's just known GUST people tend to react badly
> to anything that smells like GPL-ism :(
>
>> If they can be packaged as is I will gladly package them up.
>
> The Gyre fonts should be license-clean now (they got URW to relicense
> the original URW donation under their preferred license last year, and
> dropped the bits that were contributed under the GPL to the ghostscript
> version)
>
> See for example the first block of :
> http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/adventor/qag-hist.txt/view
>
> For other GUST fonts, not part of the Gyre collection, you can ask me or
> spot. IIRC they are not all released under the same licence and some of
> them are OK, others not.
>
> Please package the OTF versions and do one package per font in TEX Gyre
> (not one huge TEX Gyre srpm).
>
>>  Let me
>> know. If they can not, then imho they should be removed from the wish
>> list. There is no reason to bow down to anyone and this creator has
>> reached that line.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Mailhot
>
>
>

Will do, and will do =)
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