Bug#694323: Bug#694324: Bug#694323: [gsfonts] Fonts include copyrighted adobe fragment all right reserved
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Bastien ROUCARIES
<roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
>>> Wait ... I am not sure either. Maybe fontfoge *also* contains and
>>> adds this code ... I just found the text in the sources of lmodern.
>>
>> For the record: Yes, fontforge does contain the code from Adobe.
>> However, it is already possible now to use different code for
>> OtherSubrs. That's what I have done in my FPL fonts. See
>> URW-OtherSubrs.ps and the ReadOtherSubrsFile statement in the pe-files
>> in <URL:http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/fpl/source/>. I expect
>> that the code will not work out of the box with current fontforge
>> versions, but the principles should still apply.
>>
>> Hence the fontforge bug for containing the OtherSubrs code from Adobe
>> does in no way block the corresponding bug in various font packages,
>> even if they were edited with fontforge. The feature to define
>> OtherSubrs was introduced in 2005 (cf <URL:
>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.fonts.fontforge.devel/861>).
>
> Could you relicence the URW-OtherSubrs.ps under a bsd license or even
> public domain ? It will help us to .
I cannot do that, since the code has been taken from one of the
original URW++ fonts and is therefore covered by their copyright and
released under GPL. Meanwhile the original URW++ fonts have been also
released under LPPL. I am not sure if this would allow one to
relicense the OtherSubrs code under a different license.
> Moreover you entry are exactly the same of the last one of adobe code
> (Appendix 3: OtherSubrs Programs p95)
Actually, I am not sure if it is even possible to wirte working hint
replacement code that is not equivalent to the one published by Adobe.
cheerio
ralf
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