Dear Xorg developers, please forgive if this issue has already been brought up frequently.
In <http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/font/> Xorg distributes the Adobe Utopia font in Type 1 format, which has been donated by Adobe many years ago. However, the license included with these fonts is ambigious and does not explicitely grant permission to modify [1]. Thus, this font is considered non-free e.g. in Debian. Later on, Adobe has donated the same font files to the TeX User Group with an improved license which clarifies their intent [2] and which is finally considered free. It includes, however, a rule that the fonts, if redistributed outside the TeX User Group, must not retain the original font name. So, is it true that taking over the new license for these fonts from TeX would on the one hand make the fonts "more free" by explicitely granting the right of modification, but would on the other hand also mean they could not get distributed under their Adobe Utopia names? Or are there any other reasons why the font-adobe-utopia-type1-1.0.4.tar.bz2 tarball distributed by Xorg still refers to the old, non-free license? Best regards, - Fabian [1] http://www.tug.org/pipermail/texhax/2005-September/004678.html [2] http://ftp.fernuni-hagen.de/ftp-dir/pub/mirrors/www.ctan.org/fonts/utopia/LICENSE-utopia.txt _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
