[Pkg-fonts-devel] About the licensing of URW Garamond No. 8

[Nicolas Spalinger]

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>> But then I found this page
>>
>>   http://www.advogato.org/person/raph/diary/257.html
>>
>> which says
>>
>>   By the way, URW did not donate these fonts under the GPL out of
>>   their own hearts. Artifex paid good money for them, and donated them
>>   out of a mix of self-interest and altruism.
>>
>> So is may be easy to change the license to GPL, but you may want to
>> talk to Artifex, not URW++.
> 
> TTBOMK previous attempts have not been successful, anybody is welcome to
> try again.
> 
> Also IIRC GUST had derived a branch under LPPL. You may want to search
> for that. I don't recall the exact details.

Looks like the following page on tug.org has more details:
http://www.tug.org/fonts/

Cheers,


-- 
Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer
Debian/Ubuntu font teams / OpenFontLibrary
http://planet.open-fonts.org