[This message is supposed to continue the thread about licensing questions, but I just subscribed to the mailing list, so I can't reply directly to those messages.] * From*: Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas mailhot laposte net>* Subject*: Re: Help with licensing questions* Date*: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:39:47 +0100 I'm confused by this comment. My font Aurulent Sans is created by MetaType1 programs that look like this: %% \-------------------------------------------------------------------- %% The letter n %% % %% \PICT{n} %% \-------------------------------------------------------------------- beginfontglyph("n",ASCII("n"),.83lowwidth,lowsp_vert,lowsp_vert,xht,lowdepth); x0=x1=leftstemloc; y0=xht; y1=0; x2=x0; y2=.4[xht,y1]; x4=x41=x5=rightstemloc; y4=.3[xht,y1]; y5=0; x3=.76[rt x1,lft x4]; % we choose the point to make "hump" farther to the right so the divot is big. % However, we have to be careful about bold fonts, so that x3 doesn't go farther right than the left edge of x4. top y3=top y31=xht+low_overshoot; x31=.6[x3,x4]; y41=.75[y4,y3]; % works because the point put in is 1.75 expand_font_stroke.leftstem (butt_end(0,1)) (z0--z1); pen_stroke_method:=1; expand_font_stroke.rightstem (cut(fix_nib(join_px,join_py,prot),170)(0); cut(extreme_angle(x4,px,x3,py,x2,.5))(1); butt_end(last)) (z2{curl .3}..z3{right}..controls z31 and z41..z4{down}--z5); pen_stroke_method:=0; path P; P:=rightstem; P:=smooth_straight_to_curve(P,5); P:=smooth_curve_to_straight(P,2); Fill smooth_curve(P); Fill leftstem; I think this is a program and very different than the MetaType1 sources for Latin Modern and similar fonts that contain mainly just tables of data points. In that sense, the GPL for the MetaType1 sources seems very reasonable to me. Why do you think that it is inappropriate? I have not lost the source for the MetaType1 programs, but rather for the build scripts. As you point out, it's tricky to build MetaType1 files, and I had created files that were particularly tuned to work with teTeX. I don't really feel that it is advantageous to recreate these files. I would much prefer to work on rewriting the MetaType1 programs using FontForge's Python scripting. Best wishes, Stephen