TeXGyre fonts licensing concern

[Vasile Gaburici]

My lack of legal brain is confused on this. If URW doesn't change the
license and it remains purely GPL, but the other contributors agree to
re-license their parts as GLP+FontException, then what is there to be
gained by this? Isn't the user bound by most restrictive license in
the package, that is pure GPL?

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 19:13 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote:
>> URW's GPL release does not include the "font exception" additional
>> permission; indeed, it predates it.
>
> Yes, however, GPL is not incompatible with "GPL with font exception".
> It doesn't make sense to continue using GPL without the font exception
> for
> font licensing, which is why I recommended that instead of simply GPL.
>
> ~spot
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