License of Adobe Utopia fonts

Paulo Zanoni przanoni at gmail.com
Wed Aug 21 12:17:20 PDT 2013


2013/8/20 Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com>:
> Am Freitag, den 09.08.2013, 22:01 +0000 schrieb Schaaf, Jonathan P (GE
> Healthcare):
>> Along these lines, does anybody know why the Fedora guys decided
>> Utopia was okay, but not IBM Courier? It sounds like IBM Courier has
>> very similar terms that don' cover modification of the font...
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=317641
>
> This merely looks like an oversight to me. Utopia isn't even explicitely
> mentioned in this bug report.

I did some research on these font licenses in 2010: checked their
licenses and also compared Fedora and Debian packaging. I think I sent
an email to xorg-devel, but I can't find it. Here's some of my
conclusions: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=38627#c6 . But
I'm not a laywer, I may be completely wrong.


>
> - Fabian
>
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