Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We have a couple of people who deal with legal stuff (a lot of the time > it's me sitting there going, 'y'know, "all rights reserved" and nothing > else doesn't bear well for us distributing this'), but the problem in > this case is the multitude of organisations. > > It may have been granted to: > * the defunct MIT-based X Consortium, > * directly to The Open Group, > * X.Org as part of TOG, > * X.Org Foundation. > > All the XOF people swear that they haven't heard of it. If it's > trapped in XC, then we're stuffed. If it's deep within the annals of > TOG, then they don't know about it on a surface inspection, and it > would take absolutely ages to find out either way. If it's within > TOG-X.Org, then no-one who was around during those days knows about it, > so it's likely been lost. > > See the problem?
I digged into groups.google.com and found the original press release: http://groups.google.de/group/comp.windows.x/browse_thread/thread/d351921a604a4039/a3e406813544b498 Mountain View, Calif. (October 9, 1991) - Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced it has donated four typefaces from its Utopia(R) typeface family in Adobe's Type 1 font format to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's X Consortium. [....] Of course, it says nothing about the license agreement between Adobe and the MIT X Consortium. There are several quotes from the README as found in X11R5: http://groups.google.de/group/comp.fonts/browse_thread/thread/e9fb6bf9e7307b55/0fb5cf456fc7c5bb http://groups.google.de/group/comp.fonts/browse_thread/thread/f220077dbf0a69e0/dcce8a6a0702ffdb http://groups.google.de/group/comp.fonts/browse_thread/thread/66b0e1a98caf514f/c3f51fb7aa5641af ,---- | In the interests of furthering standards for the X Window System, Adobe | Systems Incorporated has contributed to the X Consortium and its members | the Adobe typeface software listed below. This Adobe Type 1 font software | donation will now allow users to experience and freely use traditional | high-quality Adobe type in the X Window environment. | | Permission to use, reproduce, display and distribute the listed typefaces | is hereby granted, provided that the Adobe Copyright notice appears in all | whole and partial copies of the software and that the following trademark | symbol and attribution appear in all unmodified copies of the software: | | Copyright (c) 1989 Adobe Systems Incorporated | Utopia (R) | Utopia is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated | | The Adobe typefaces (Type 1 font program, bitmaps and Adobe Font Metric | files) donated are: | | Utopia Regular | Utopia Italic | Utopia Bold | Utopia Bold Italic | | Adobe Systems Incorporated `---- Which is more or less what we have on CTAN now. I think it would be good if this were readded to the X.org CVS, so that the utopia fonts could be included in xfonts-scalable-nonfree again. Of course, asking Adobe to clarify the situation would be even better. cheerio ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]