On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 11:01 +0300, Vasile Gaburici wrote:
Since URW is the original copyright holder, the solution would be
for
URW to either relicense the fonts themselves e.g. under LPPL or OFL -
whaterver FOSS license works best for fonts, or to give special
permission, i.e. an exclusive license, to GUST do so... I doubt URW
would care much either way after almost 20 years since these fonts
have GPL'd.
You forget that during those 20 years other people have contributed
under the assumption the whole thing was GPL. Though Artifex probably
demanded copyright assignment.
--
Nicolas Mailhot