[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#665334: non-DFSG postscript embedded in fontforge

[Hideki Yamane]

Hi,

>The originals of several of these functions seem to appear (with
>non-DFSG-free licensing) in the appendices of
>http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/font/5015.Type1_Supp.pdf
>
>In particular, the licensing says:
>
>>>> This code, as well as the code in the following appendices, is copyrighted by
>>>> Adobe Systems Incorporated, and may not be reproduced except by
>>>> permission of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Adobe Systems Incorporated
>>>> grants permission to use this code in Type 1 font programs, as long as the
>>>> code is used as it appears in this document, the copyright notice remains
>>>> intact, and the character outline code included in such a font program is
>>>> neither copied nor derived from character outline code in any Adobe Systems
>>>> font program.


>> https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/blob/master/fontforge/othersubrs.c

This code seems to be based on
https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/afdko/tree/master/FDK/Tools/Programs/public/lib/source/t1write/t1write_flexothers.*
and now Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType (AFDKO) is licensed under
Apache-2.0 license. Fontforge is licensed under GPL-3, so it's not a
problem to embedded it.

Thanks, Read and other folks in Adobe :)
Bug#665334 "non-DFSG postscript embedded in fontforge" is solved.



However, I don't know it is okay for other pfb files with license conflicts.
Apache-2.0 conflicts with GPL-2, at least, and it may conflict with
other license,
too.

Just "type 1 fonts include Adobe all right reserved code" is not a problem, but
if those type 1 fonts would be licensed under certain license like GPL-2 that
conflict with Apache-2.0...?

And, how can I think about fontforge copies snippet to generate those
*.pfb files?

It's for Bug#694308.