The goose OpenType eggs holds...

[Vasile Gaburici]

Since URW is the original copyright holder, the solution would be for
URW to either relicense the fonts themselves e.g. under LPPL or OFL -
whaterver FOSS license works best for fonts, or to give special
permission, i.e. an exclusive license, to GUST do so... I doubt URW
would care much either way after almost 20 years since these fonts
have GPL'd. But they need to be approached about the matter. I guess
Tom knows better what's the optimal way out in a situation like this.

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
> 2008/7/24 Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com>:
>> 2008/7/24 Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com>:
>>> 2008/7/24 Vasile Gaburici <vgaburici at gmail.com>:
>>>> I suspect that their fonts are based on the visual designs, but not
>>>> raw data of the URW fonts, otherwise GUST would be bound by the GPL,
>>>
>>> I think the GUST guys have infringed the GPL. Not 100% sure, but I think so :(
>>
>> Okay, I looked into it and it seems to be true.
>> http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/adventor/qag1.104bas.zip
>> which has /doc/fonts/tex-gyre/README-TeX-Gyre-Adventor.txt which says:
>
> In fact its even more explicit in that file:
>
> "TeX Gyre Adventor is based on the URW Gothic L distributed under
> GPL with Ghostscript."
>
> and then
>
> "The TeX Gyre Adventor family can be freely used and distributed
> under the GUST Font License (see above) which is actually
> an instance of the LaTeX Project Public License"
>
> Madness! :-)
>
>