[tex-live] Re: License of fonts included in X.org sources

[Daniel Stone]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:31:13PM +0200, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Stone <daniels at debian.org> writes:
> 
>   >> > Do you know which person we could contact among the X.org
>   >> people?
> 
>   > More context, please.  Which fonts?
> 
> The Utopia fonts from Adobe:
> 
>     UTBI____.pfa
>     UTB_____.pfa
>     UTI_____.pfa
>     UTRG____.pfa
> 
> Usually they are in in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1.
> 
> There are two questions (at least):
> 
>     1.  Under which conditions can they be distributed?
> 
>     2.  Is it permitted to modify them (adding support for Vietnamese
>         in this case) if the filename, /FontName, and /UniqueID is
>         changed in each font? 

The only copyright on these fonts is:
Copyright (c) 1989, 1991 Adobe Systems Incorporated.  All Rights Reserved.

So, I'd say the answer to both of your questions is 'no'.
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