[Pkg-fonts-bugs] Bug#665334: Adobe font hinting

Bastien ROUCARIES roucaries.bastien at gmail.com
Tue Dec 16 21:44:41 UTC 2014


On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Read Roberts <rroberts at adobe.com> wrote:
> I am working on this now, and the major legal hurdles have been cleared.
> It may still be several months for all the paperwork to get done, but I
> will have finished the development work within a week or two. Definitely
> happening by August.

I am getting some news of the  OtherSubrs relicencing.

Bastien
>
> - Read Roberts
>
> On 4/13/14, 6:12 AM, "Bastien ROUCARIES" <roucaries.bastien at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>What is the status of the autohinting license for fonts ?
>>
>>Bastien
>>
>>On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Read Roberts <rroberts at adobe.com> wrote:
>>> Hello Bastian;
>>>
>>> I am the person would would address any problems in the Adobe 'autohint'
>>> program. However, I'm not sure what issue you are referencing. I have on
>>> file a request from Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> to make
>>> the MM subsrs OpenSource, so that FontForge can build MM fonts. I do
>>>plan
>>> to make the AFDKO OpenSource, and would include the MM subrs, as well as
>>> the autohint code. This is currently scheduled for late 2013, but could
>>> easily slip for another 6 months.
>>>
>>> Bets regards,
>>>  Read Roberts
>>
>>Any news
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/9/12 6:40 AM, "Bastien ROUCARIES" <roucaries.bastien at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Dear read,
>>>>
>>>>Any new of the relicencing effort of font hinting at adobe.
>>>>
>>>>This problem is more important than we think at first time. A lot of
>>>>debian fonts are affected, even ghostscript one.
>>>>
>>>>Who is the person what we should contact at adobe ?
>>>>
>>>>Bastien
>>>
>




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