Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 08:21:08PM +0200, Reinhard Kotucha wrote: >> >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Right. As I said earlier, it's probably tied up somewhere deep >> > within TOG: no-one still involved with X today remembers this at >> > all. >> >> Maybe it is sufficient to find someone at X.org who is willing to >> care about the legal stuff. It is a great advantage that Thanh >> found someone at Adobe who remembers. > > We have a couple of people who deal with legal stuff (a lot of the > time it's me sitting there going, 'y'know, "all rights reserved" and > nothing else doesn't bear well for us distributing this'), but the > problem in this case is the multitude of organisations. > > It may have been granted to: > * the defunct MIT-based X Consortium, > * directly to The Open Group, > * X.Org as part of TOG, > * X.Org Foundation. > > All the XOF people swear that they haven't heard of it. If it's > trapped in XC, then we're stuffed. If it's deep within the annals of > TOG, then they don't know about it on a surface inspection, and it > would take absolutely ages to find out either way. If it's within > TOG-X.Org, then no-one who was around during those days knows about it, > so it's likely been lost. > > See the problem?
Perhaps the easiest way out is to tell Adobe about the situation and ask them whether they'd consider relicensing those fonts _again_, this time to TUG or Dante, so as to clear up any issues. Since they don't actively market them as far as I know, doing so for something which is presumed to be in the open, anyway, might be good PR. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
