Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 02:50:32PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> > Do you know which person we could contact among the X.org people? > > More context, please. Which fonts?
In this special case, it's about the Utopia fonts gsfonts-other-6.0/putbi.pfa gsfonts-other-6.0/putb.pfa gsfonts-other-6.0/putri.pfa gsfonts-other-6.0/putr.pfa > Fonts are a particularly hairy area of our licensing. If the licence > information rests with 'the X consortium', then it may well still be > tied up deep in the corridors of TOG, or within the old X.Org group. > In any case, the current X.Org Foundation doesn't have it in any > official sense, but knowing which font is a good start. > > Try [EMAIL PROTECTED]; some of the people from the old XC > still hang around there. Well, the problem was that someone probably already did that: ,---- Here is an excerpt from Thanh's mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | | However I am not sure that I can modify them to add | vietnamese support, because I am very ignorant of | license/copyright issues | | Concerning Adobe Utopia, I did my best to try to find out | the answer, but without success: I asked people at Adobe | first and got a response saying that they have granted the | font license to X Consortium, so now only X Consortium can | grant the permission to modify these fonts. I wrote to X.Org | and got a response saying that my question is being processed | and then nothing (it was a few months ago). So I gave it up. `---- This is why I asked whether anybody knows about a specific person we could contact. Or at least about a subject that might attract the people who might know. TIA, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
