Re: [Openfontlibrary] urw donated or not

2008-05-08 Thread Karl Berry
I seem to recall that in early versions of Ghostscript the URW fonts had a *much* more restricted licence The AFPL? My recollection is that the URW fonts were always available under both the GPL and AFPL. I do not recall there being any time when Aladdin Ghostscript had the URW fonts and

Re: [Openfontlibrary] urw donated or not

2008-05-08 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Christopher Fynn wrote: > Question - did Artifex pay only to get the licence changed > to GPL or did they pay URW to allow the earlier > "free of charge" distribution Ralph Giles is at LGM since today. I will pass all your questions to him Alexandre __

Re: [Openfontlibrary] urw donated or not

2008-05-07 Thread Christopher Fynn
I seem to recall that in early versions of Ghostscript the URW fonts had a *much* more restricted licence - but they were distributed "free of charge" Question - did Artifex pay only to get the licence changed to GPL or did they pay URW to allow the earlier "free of charge" distribution - Chris

[Openfontlibrary] urw donated or not

2008-05-07 Thread minombresbond
the urw font package is one of the best quality collection of free-as-freedom fonts, gplized for the ghostscript project the people say on the web that these sources were *donated* by urw but, in the Raph Levin blog in advocato I found: http://www.advogato.org/person/raph/diary/257.html "By the