On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Bastien ROUCARIES <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Ralf Stubner <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Norbert Preining <[email protected]> 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>). > > Could you relicence the URW-OtherSubrs.ps under a bsd license or even > public domain ? It will help us to .
I cannot do that, since the code has been taken from one of the original URW++ fonts and is therefore covered by their copyright and released under GPL. Meanwhile the original URW++ fonts have been also released under LPPL. I am not sure if this would allow one to relicense the OtherSubrs code under a different license. > Moreover you entry are exactly the same of the last one of adobe code > (Appendix 3: OtherSubrs Programs p95) Actually, I am not sure if it is even possible to wirte working hint replacement code that is not equivalent to the one published by Adobe. cheerio ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
