Le 1 sept. 2013 17:09, "Fabian Greffrath" <fab...@greffrath.com> a écrit : > > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Fabian Greffrath <fab...@greffrath.com> > > * Package name : fonts-urw-base35 > Version : 2:20130628-1 > Upstream Author : (URW)++ Design & Development > * URL : http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/fonts/ > * License : GPL (needs clarification, see #720906) > Programming Lang: fonts > Description : Set of the 35 PostScript Language Level 2 Base Fonts > A commercial-quality set of the basic 35 PostScript Type 1 fonts. > Each font includes .pfb (outlines), .afm (metrics), and .pfm (Windows printer > metrics) files. The fonts are compatible with general Type 1 manipulation > tools as well as with Ghostscript. > > This package will contain an updated set of the 35 PostScript base fonts, that > has been made available by upstream author URW++ to Artifex, the developers of > Ghostscript, and is already shipped as part of ghostscript 9.09. It is intended > to replace the gsfonts package, which contains a fork of an ancient version of > these fonts with added cyrilic glyphs. However, that fork is long unmaintained > upstream and the glyphs are of reportedly questionable quality, which I cannot > judge for myself, though. The package will also integrate the effort to make > the fonts available to an X server and thus replace the gsfonts-x11 package. > Finally, I am going to convince the texlive maintainers to replace their copy > of these fonts in the texlive-fonts-recommended package (used for the psnfss > latex-package) with this pristine release. All corresponsing package > maintainers are in CC. > > I am going to maintain this package under the umbrella of the pkg-fonts team. > The license for the fonts used to be GPL, but a corresponding note has > apparently been forgotten in the current release. This issue is reported as > #720906 in Debian (against the ghostscript package, which already ships an > updated version of these fonts, but not yet this latest update) and has been > brought to the attention of ghostscript upstream who will strive for > clarification with URW++ in the short term.
GPL strait or GPL with font exception? > > - Fabian >
