TeXGyre fonts licensing concern

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 22:22 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote:
> 2008/7/30 Vasile Gaburici <vgaburici at gmail.com>:
> > 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?
> 
> That is my understanding, and my point :-)

Yes, that is true, but:

A) The package is then distributable
B) The only remaining issue is to sell URW on the font exception, which
can be done at any time.

~spot