Font packages

[Leon Shiman]

on Tue, 24 May 2005 02:13:44 -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.

Strong plan - and a significant "side effect".

I strongly urge that your cases below be withheld pending clarification... 
to be raised with SFLC attorneys.

leon
>
>
>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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