Re: License for Antiqua font (URW)

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:10:55 -0500, John Culleton wrote:

> Many of the fonts shipped with e.g., TeXLive have references to the GNU
> License embedded in the pfb file.

I'm surprised they don't all have this. Perhaps references to the GPL
were stripped out by Valek Filippov, who added Cyrillic glyphs. This
should be corrected; presumably his work is GPLed as well.

> Antiqua has no such reference embedded.

Again, perhaps Peter Deutsch, who modified the font, is responsible.

> A person on another group has suggested that TeX is shipping pirated
> fonts, which is of course absurd. However on the specific instance
> of URW Antiqua can someone point me to a document licensing that
> particular font to the TeX community?

They are licensed to everyone under the GPL, according to this, from
ghostscript's Fontmap.GS:

% Fonts contributed by URW GmbH for distribution under the GNU License.
% The following notice accompanied these fonts:
%
% U004006T URW Grotesk 2031 Bold PostScript Type 1 Font Program
% U003043T URW Antiqua 2051 Regular Condensed PostScript Type 1 Font Program
%
% Copyright (c) 1992 URW GmbH, Hamburg, Germany
%
% This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
% it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
% the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
% (at your option) later version.
%
% This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
% but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; wihtout even the implied warranty of
% MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
% See the GNU General Public License for more details.
%
% You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
% along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
% Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111 U.S.A.
%
% Address:
% URW GmbH
% PC Support
% Harksheider Strasse 102
% 2000 Hamburg 65
% Germany
% Phone: +49 40 60 60 50 (Reception)
% Phone: +49 40 60 60 52 30 (PC Support)
% Fax : +49 40 60 60 52 52
%

/URWAntiquaT-RegularCondensed (u003043t.gsf) ;
/URWGroteskT-Bold (u004006t.gsf) ;


Perhaps the person was thinking of other "Antiqua" fonts, such as
Monotype's Book Antiqua, a Palatino clone. There are actually about 30
"Antiqua" typefaces.

Bob T.
.

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