The goose OpenType eggs holds...

[Dave Crossland]

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. I couldn't find Hans
Hagen tonight, but will email him if I can't meet him tomorrow...

>From http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/adventor I
downloaded 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:

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###########################################################################
############          The TeX Gyre Collection of Fonts         ############
############                 The font Adventor                 ############
###########################################################################

Font: TeX Gyre Adventor
Design: Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase
Authors: Bogus\l{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki
Version: 1.104
Date: 29 II 2008
Downloads: http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/adventor
License:
  % Copyright (URW)++, copyright 1999 by (URW)++ Design & Development.
  % Cyrillic glyphs added by Valek Filippov, copyright 2001-2002.
  % Vietnamese characters were added by Han The Thanh.
  % Copyright 2007 for TeX Gyre extensions by B. Jackowski and J. M. Nowacki
  % (on behalf of TeX Users Groups).
  % This work is released under the GUST Font License
  %   -- see GUST-FONT-LICENSE.txt.
  % This work has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained".
  % The Current Maintainer of this work is Bogus\l{}aw Jackowski
  %   and Janusz M. Nowacki.
  % This work consists of the files listed
  %   % in the MANIFEST-TeX-Gyre-Adventor.txt file.

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This line:

  % Copyright (URW)++, copyright 1999 by (URW)++ Design & Development

means this project is bankrupt :-(

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Dave

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