The goose OpenType eggs holds...

Vasile Gaburici vgaburici at gmail.com
Thu Jul 24 15:51:49 UTC 2008


Well, in that case Fedora is in trouble already. The gyre OpenType
fonts are already shipped by Fedora in a TeXLive package, just not
used by pango!

[vga at localhost ~]$ rpm -qif
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/tex-gyre/texgyrepagella-regular.otf
Name        : texlive-texmf-fonts          Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 2007                              Vendor: Fedora Project
Release     : 22.fc9                        Build Date: Tue 06 May
2008 12:01:32 AM EEST
Install Date: Thu 29 May 2008 08:25:36 PM EEST      Build Host:
ppc4.fedora.phx.redhat.com
Group       : Applications/Publishing       Source RPM:
texlive-texmf-2007-22.fc9.src.rpm
Size        : 112425640                        License: Artistic 2.0
and GPLv2 and GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ and LPPL and MIT and Public Domain
and UCD and Utopia
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Tue 06 May 2008 05:32:02 AM EEST, Key ID
b44269d04f2a6fd2
Packager    : Fedora Project
URL         : http://tug.org/texlive/
Summary     : Font files needed for TeXLive
Description :
This package contains the components of the TEXMF tree needed for the
texlive-fonts package.


On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 18:29 +0300, Vasile Gaburici wrote:
>> The GPL copyright holder for the original Type 1 fonts is URW, so they
>> would have to send GUST notice of derived work infringement. Correct?
>
> To initiate legal proceedings, yes, but it doesn't mean that Fedora can
> distribute it. Think of it as a stolen good.
>
> ~spot
>
>




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