Hi,
While it's always nice to have another confirmation URW+ is OK with those fonts being released, this is not the version of the fonts GUST derived, and the version they did derive has contributions from other persons under the GPL license.
Even ignoring the other contributions this mail states LPPL not the simplified LPPL GUST is using.
So GUST is still redistributing fonts relicensed without authorisation.
Ironicaly this mail confirms the fonts were indeed always released under the GPL by URW+, which was one argument advanced to 'justify' the relicensing (as if having doubts about the license of a file was sufficient to slap another on it).
I suppose now we'll see energy extended to re-derive the GS 4.0 version of the fonts and purge any reason to use the licensing which has served well the community for years.
This is all very sad.
Le dimanche 28 juin 2009 à 21:57 +0100, Dave Crossland a écrit :
:)
Regards, Dave
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Jerzy Ludwichowski" <Jerzy.Ludwichowski@uni.torun.pl> Date: 28 Jun 2009, 9:31 PM Subject: LUG-boards: URW++ original 35 fonts available under LPPL To: "LUG boards" <lug-boards@ifi.uio.no> Dear Friends, please send out the message below to your members. Regards, Jerzy Ludwichowski ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: president@gust.org.pl (Jerzy B. Ludwichowski) Subject: URW++ making original 35 fonts available under LPPL I am forwarding the message below on behalf of Peter Rosenfeld, Managing Director of URW++, who has kindly agreed to make the basic 35 PostScript fonts also available under the LPPL. At his request, I'll be disseminating the information throughout the TeX community. Many thanks to Dr. Rosenfeld! Many thanks are also due to Karl Berry, TUG President, for his unswerving support and advice and Bogus\{}aw Jackowski, lead TeX Gyre developer, for pushing the issue. Best, Jerzy From: Peter Rosenfeld Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:33:29 +0200 Subject: URW++ original 35 fonts available under LPPL To whom it may concern, Many years ago, URW++ Design and Development Inc. released their Type 1 implementations of the basic 35 PostScript fonts under the GNU General Public License and the Aladdin Ghostscript Free Public License. We now additionally release them under the LaTeX Project Public License (http://www.latex-project.org/lppl), either version 1 or (at your option) any later version. Of course, this additional licensing applies to the original URW++ material, not any subsequent changes and additions made by other parties. The original font files are widely available, for instance as part of the Ghostscript 4.00 release, and therefore we are not releasing any new font files. Those interested can replace the license terms in those original files accordingly. Responsibility for ensuring that no material is incorrectly licensed remains with the distributor, as always. We hope this additional licensing will make our fonts even more widely available and usable in the free software community, such as the TeX Gyre Project. Sincerely, Peter Rosenfeld (Managing Director, URW++)
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Nicolas Mailhot