Font packages

[Kevin E Martin]

After digging a bit further, here's what I've found...

Adobe donated quite a few fonts (Courier, Helvetica, Symbol, New Century
Schoolbook, Times) as well as Utopia.  All of the other fonts have
COMMENTs in the font properties section that give us the standard use,
copy, modify and distribute permissions, but Utopia is missing comments.
It may simply be that someone forgot to add the appropriate comments to
those fonts.  I've checked back as far as X11R1, and the Utopia fonts
showed up in X11R6, while the other Adobe fonts showed up in X11R4.  The
Daewoo fonts showed up in X11R5.

On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 09:27:58AM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> 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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