I seem to recall that in early versions of Ghostscript the URW fonts had a *much* more restricted licence - but they were distributed "free of charge"
Question - did Artifex pay only to get the licence changed to GPL or did they pay URW to allow the earlier "free of charge" distribution - Chris minombresbond wrote:
the urw font package is one of the best quality collection of free-as-freedom fonts, gplized for the ghostscript project the people say on the web that these sources were *donated* by urw but, in the Raph Levin blog in advocato I found: http://www.advogato.org/person/raph/diary/257.html "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." Is this really the case? thanks!
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