Re: Font license recommendation

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Lars Hellström  <Lars.Hellstrom@math.umu.se> writes:

> The problem with GPL'ing is that anyone who recieves a PS file using a
> GPL'ed font could then claim that the PS file in its entirety must be
> GPL'ed and thus request to get the (.tex or similar) sources for the PS
> file, since these would be "the preferred form for making modifications".

If the font is really separate: that is, if the encoding is done in
such a way that it's easily extractable, then it clearly seems like a
case of a mere aggregation.