Re: Re: About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

[Fabian Greffrath <fabian@greffrath.com>]

Am Dienstag, den 27.08.2013, 10:44 +0200 schrieb roucaries bastien: 
> Could you ask also for the fontforge source and not like the
> postscript font the resulting file ?

We should be careful and not request too much at once from them.

I once had a short mail with RMS about that topic and the FSF considers
fonts in binary formats acceptible, since they can still be edited with
font editors. Please note that the .sfd format is not the canonical
source format for fonts, but only fontforge's own file format which
happens to be text-based. So it's just one possible, though often the
prefered, format for fonts. On the other hand, it is not necessary that
URW uses fontforge for their font editing, so they might not even be
able to provide fonts in its sfd format.

- Fabian