http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/378/1996/5/0/2064811/ FROM: L. Peter Deutsch DATE: 05/14/1996 10:22:00 SUBJECT: Finally! Good-quality free (GPL) basic-35 PostScript Type 1 fonts. A free (GNU Licensed) commercial-quality set of the basic 35 PostScript Type 1 fonts is now finally available. Each font includes .PFB (outlines), .AFM (metrics), and .PFM (Windows printer metrics) files. The fonts are compatible with Adobe Type Manager and with general Type 1 manipulation tools, as well as with Ghostscript and other PostScript language interpreters. The fonts are initially being made available on: ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/gnu/ghostscript-fonts-4.0.tar.gz They will be propagated to the GNU servers in the course of the next few days. This archive contains the font files themselves, the GNU License, and a Fontmap file suitable for use with any version of Ghostscript. At or before the time of the next (4.0) Aladdin Ghostscript release, a copy of the fonts will also be placed on: ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/aladdin/ghostscript-fonts-std-4.0.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/aladdin/gs400fn1.zip with the Aladdin Ghostscript Free Public License. However, since the GNU License on the fonts applies only to the fonts themselves, you may use and distribute the GPL`ed fonts now under the terms of the GNU License in conjunction with Aladdin Ghostscript with no conflict. The copyright holder of these fonts, URW++ Design and Development Incorporated (the successor to the former well-known URW company), was willing to release the fonts with the GPL and the AGFPL because they judged (correctly in my opinion) that these particular fonts have become such a commodity item, with such low profit margins, that the value to URW++ of having URW++`s name widely visible and appreciated on the net is now greater than the loss of profit from those future sales that the free licenses will cause not to occur. If you wish to find out about URW++`s consulting and development services, you may reach them at: URW++ Design and Development Incorporated Poppenbuetteler Bogen 29A D-22399 Hamburg Germany tel. +49 (40) 60 60 50 fax +49 (40) 60 60 51 11 L. Peter Deutsch | Aladdin Enterprises :::: 203 Santa Margarita Ave. | tel. +1-415-322-0103 (AM only); fax +1-415-322-1734 Menlo Park, CA 94025 | -&- Artifex Software Inc. :: "Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery."