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

[Read Roberts]

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.

- 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
>>