https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1496466



--- Comment #4 from Alexander Ploumistos <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Nicolas Mailhot from comment #3)
> I haven't checked texlive lately but unless the fonts are packaged using the
> Fedora packaging template they won't be available in fontconfig for non-tex
> apps such as libreoffice.

There are no fontconfig.conf (nor metainfo.xml) files and the fonts are
packaged in a number of different formats.
Interestingly, I discovered the texlive-tex-gyre-math package on my system,
which contains nothing but the fonts in otf format plus their license and these
fonts are available in LibreOffice.


> It does not matter if they are packaged as texlive subpackages or as
> independent projects as long as the template is applied. Also, whoever
> packages them needs to ship some fontconfig files that aliases the various
> past names of the fonts to the new one for backwards compat. Again there are
> templates to do so in fontpackages-devel.

I seem to have such rules in 30-metric-aliases.conf as well as in the
fontconfig files from David's urw-base35 fonts.


> Reading
> http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/index_html#Licensing
> 
> they got URW to publish the fonts under their own pet license to avoid
> dealing with Ghostscript licensing they didn't understood. So as long as
> they rebased to that release with no ghostscript import they are ok
> legal-wise (do check with spot if you feel like it, though I'm pretty sure
> he'd have blocked them from TexLive during its TEX audits if there was still
> a problem).
> 
> That sucks if GS added fixes over URW material, but that's how free software
> works when projects disagree on licensing.

This was on 2016-11-25:

"We are on our way to the reconciling both licenses. It takes time, though..."

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