Bug#694323: Bug#694324: Bug#694323: [gsfonts] Fonts include copyrighted adobe fragment all right reserved
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>).
cheerio
ralf
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