[Pkg-fonts-devel] [good new]Type 1 font hinting is now free software

[Bastien ROUCARIÈS]

Hi,

I have achieved after 6 years to get adobe relicense type 1 code.

Since 1985 type fonts hinting was not free, now it is free software [1].

The license choosen by adobe is unfortunalty apache 2 and thus not compatible 
with GPL2 only.

They are about 7146 fonts that need to be audited and add correct copyright to 
debian/copyright.

I plan to close #694308 and  ask upstream to fix #665334.

We will need to do a ful rebuilt of fontforge fonts in order to add the new 
code to actual fonts.

Lintian warning will be fixed.

Thank 

[1] https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/afdko/issues/172
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