Font packages

[Kevin E Martin]

I've been working through the fonts today, and there are several methods
that could be used to package them:

1. Create packages similar to the ones in the monolithic tree (100dpi,
   75dpi, misc, cyrillic, ...)
2. Create packages per family (charter, courier, helvetica, ...)
3. Create packages per foundry (Adobe, B&H, Bitstream, ...)
4. Create packages using some combination of these options

I'm leaning toward using a combination (e.g., font-adobe-courier-75dpi,
font-bitstream-charter-100dpi, etc.) it would give our users the
clearest indication of exactly what's contained within the package and
it allows more fonts to be added to the font module without conflating
the official XOF packages.  This breakdown also has a nice side effect
of not having to deal with multiple font licenses in the same package.
I'll go ahead with this scheme unless someone comes up with a better way
to group fonts.


Speaking of licenses, so far I've found two fonts that have copyrights,
but do not seem to give us any permissions.  They are the Adobe Utopia
fonts (e.g., bdf/*dpi/UT*.bdf and scaled/Type1/UT*), which have the
following copyright:

Copyright (c) 1989, 1991 Adobe Systems Incorporated.  All Rights Reserved.

and the Daewoo fonts (e.g., bdf/misc/hangl*.bdf), which have the
following copyright:

Copyright (c) 1987, 1988 Daewoo Electronics Co.,Ltd.

Neither of these fonts give any indication of whether or not we have the
right to redistribute them or use the trademarked font names.  Note that
they've both been included since X11R6.0.

Also, the following fonts do not have any copyright:

    bdf/cyrillic/screen8x16*.bdf
    bdf/misc/nil2.bdf

Perhaps someone who has dealt with font licenses before can say what our
redistribution rights are.

Thanks,
Kevin