[tex-live] Missing Courier AFMs found

Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Thu May 11 01:13:43 CEST 2006


>>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner at physik.uni-erlangen.de> writes:

  > Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> writes: [...]
  >> 3. Adobe Utopia.
  >> 
  >> 4. URW Garamond and Letter Gothic.
  >> 
  >> Hence we will get a Courier (which will certainly/hopefully not
  >> be called Courier) which will be much better than everything you
  >> can buy today.  At least Jacko's fonts will support much more
  >> languages.  And these fonts will have a copyright which is
  >> acceptable even for Debian people.

  > Have there been any news on the licensing front? Utopia as well as
  > the URW fonts from GhostPCL are *not* DFSG free. Utopia does not
  > even allow derived versions.

Why does the license matter?  Jacko creates some shapes from scratch
which have noting to do with Adobe Utopia, only the metrics will be
compatible.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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