Font packages

[Jim Gettys]

I know adobe donated some fonts in the deep dark past; I presume these
are those, but don't have any direct way of knowing.
				- Jim


On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 02:13 -0400, Kevin E Martin wrote:
> 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
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