Ralf Stubner wrote: > I digged into groups.google.com and found the original press release: > > http://groups.google.de/group/comp.windows.x/browse_thread/thread/d351921a604a4039/a3e406813544b498 > > Mountain View, Calif. (October 9, 1991) - Adobe Systems Incorporated today > announced it has donated four typefaces from its Utopia(R) typeface family > in Adobe's Type 1 font format to the Massachusetts Institute of > Technology's X Consortium. > [....] > > Of course, it says nothing about the license agreement between Adobe and > the MIT X Consortium. There are several quotes from the README as found > in X11R5: > > http://groups.google.de/group/comp.fonts/browse_thread/thread/e9fb6bf9e7307b55/0fb5cf456fc7c5bb > http://groups.google.de/group/comp.fonts/browse_thread/thread/f220077dbf0a69e0/dcce8a6a0702ffdb > http://groups.google.de/group/comp.fonts/browse_thread/thread/66b0e1a98caf514f/c3f51fb7aa5641af > > ,---- > | In the interests of furthering standards for the X Window System, Adobe > | Systems Incorporated has contributed to the X Consortium and its members > | the Adobe typeface software listed below. This Adobe Type 1 font > | software donation will now allow users to experience and freely use > | traditional high-quality Adobe type in the X Window environment. > | > | Permission to use, reproduce, display and distribute the listed > | typefaces is hereby granted, provided that the Adobe Copyright notice > | appears in all whole and partial copies of the software and that the > | following trademark symbol and attribution appear in all unmodified > | copies of the software: > | > | Copyright (c) 1989 Adobe Systems Incorporated > | Utopia (R) > | Utopia is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated > | > | The Adobe typefaces (Type 1 font program, bitmaps and Adobe Font Metric > | files) donated are: > | > | Utopia Regular > | Utopia Italic > | Utopia Bold > | Utopia Bold Italic > | > | Adobe Systems Incorporated > `----
OK, based on this, Adobe still holds the copyrights. It hasn't granted explicit modification permission -- but appears to have intended to, given the word 'unmodfied' in the trademark clause. Perhaps we could simply ask Adobe's legal department for a clarification that this license means that we can make and redistribute modified versions. I think we should be able to get these fonts in Debian proper. > Which is more or less what we have on CTAN now. I think it would be good > if this were readded to the X.org CVS, so that the utopia fonts could be > included in xfonts-scalable-nonfree again. > > Of course, asking Adobe to clarify the situation would be even better. -- ksig --random| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
