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1 Oracle elects to use only the GNU Lesser General Public License version |
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2 2.1 (LGPL)/GNU General Public License version 2 (GPL) for any software |
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3 where a choice of LGPL/GPL license versions are made available with the |
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4 language indicating that LGPLv2.1/GPLv2 or any later version may be |
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5 used, or where a choice of which version of the LGPL/GPL is applied is |
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6 unspecified. Unless specifically stated otherwise, where a choice |
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7 exists between another license and either the GPL or the LGPL, Oracle |
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8 chooses the other license. |
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10 |
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11 Two sets of free fonts are supplied for Ghostscript: |
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12 |
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13 35 commercial-quality Type 1 basic PostScript fonts -- Times, Helvetica, |
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14 Courier, Symbol, etc. -- contributed by URW++ Design and Development |
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15 Incorporated, of Hamburg, Germany (http://www.urwpp.de/). Fontmap names |
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16 them all. |
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17 |
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18 A miscellaneous set including Cyrillic, kana, and fonts derived from the |
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19 free Hershey fonts, with improvements (such as adding accented characters) |
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20 by Thomas Wolff. The Hershey-based fonts are quite different from |
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21 traditional printer or display fonts; you can read about them in more |
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22 detail in the documentation on Hershey fonts. |
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27 For the fonts drived from the public domain Hershey fonts with improvements |
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28 by Thoms Wolff as stated by the Hershey.html file delivered with |
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29 GNU Ghostscript: |
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30 |
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31 |
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32 USE RESTRICTION: |
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33 This distribution of the Hershey Fonts may be used by anyone for |
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34 any purpose, commercial or otherwise, providing that: |
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35 1. The following acknowledgements must be distributed with |
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36 the font data: |
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37 - The Hershey Fonts were originally created by Dr. |
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38 A. V. Hershey while working at the U. S. |
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39 National Bureau of Standards. |
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40 - The format of the Font data in this distribution |
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41 was originally created by |
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42 James Hurt |
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43 Cognition, Inc. |
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44 900 Technology Park Drive |
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45 Billerica, MA 01821 |
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46 (mit-eddie!ci-dandelion!hurt) |
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47 2. The font data in this distribution may be converted into |
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48 any other format *EXCEPT* the format distributed by |
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49 the U.S. NTIS (which organization holds the rights |
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50 to the distribution and use of the font data in that |
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51 particular format). Not that anybody would really |
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52 *want* to use their format... each point is described |
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53 in eight bytes as "xxx yyy:", where xxx and yyy are |
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54 the coordinate values as ASCII numbers. |
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55 |
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56 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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57 For other free fonts: |
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58 |
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59 |
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60 A free Chinese (Hanzi) font - |
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61 |
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62 A free Chinese font, originally provided by courtesy of Jackson Technology, Ltd., Taiwan under the GPL and now distributed by the Taiwan NeXT |
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63 User Group, is available from: |
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64 |
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65 ftp://ftp.ifcss.org/pub/software/fonts/big5/next/ |
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66 ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/hanzi/ |
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67 |
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68 Free Japanese (Kanji) fonts - |
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69 |
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70 Mr. Tetsurou Tanaka of the Department of Engineering, University of Tokyo, has created a set of free Kanji fonts available from |
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71 |
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72 ftp://ftp.ipl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Font/ |
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73 |
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74 along with documentation in Japanese and English describing their conditions of use and how to use them. An older copy of these fonts, under |
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75 somewhat different names, is available at the Ghostscript site: |
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76 |
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77 ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/kanji/ |
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78 |
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79 Mr. Norio Katayama has done some work to make Ghostscript work well with Kanji fonts. An easy-to-install Kanji font for Ghostscript, with |
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80 installation instructions, is at |
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81 |
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82 http://www.cit.ics.saitama-u.ac.jp/~far/howto/gs-ttf.html |
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83 |
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84 The same site has patches to make Ghostscript work with Japanese VF fonts, with documentation in both English and Japanese: |
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85 |
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86 http://www.cit.ics.saitama-u.ac.jp/~far/howto/gs-vflib.html |
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87 |
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88 Here are some other resources in Japanese relating to VFlib and using Ghostscript with Japanese fonts: |
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89 |
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90 http://www.ldl.jaist.ac.jp/~akr/nonresearch/free-software/ghostscript/index.ja.html |
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91 Author <[email protected]> |
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92 http://www.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~kakugawa/Hacks/Hacks-JIS.html |
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93 http://itohws03.ee.noda.sut.ac.jp/~matsuda/VFlib-FT/ |
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94 Author <[email protected]> |
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95 |
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96 Unicode CMaps - |
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97 |
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98 The Unicode CMaps distributed with Ghostscript are freely downloadable from |
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99 |
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100 ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/pub/examples/nutshell/ujip/adobe/ |
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101 |
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102 Free Cyrillic fonts - |
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103 |
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104 N. Glonty and A. Samarin created in 1989 a Cyrillic extension of TeX's "Computer Modern" fonts, now freely available through the Comprehensive |
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105 TeX Archive Network (CTAN), for instance at |
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106 |
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107 ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/fonts/cmcyr/ |
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108 |
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109 Basil K. Malyshev created the "Paradissa Fonts Collection" in 1993. It contains 165 fonts, including the Glonty and Samarin font above plus other |
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110 Computer Modern, Euler, and LaTeX fonts, all in PostScript Type 1 format with .AFM and .PFM files, compatible with ATM. The collection can be |
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111 found through CTAN, for instance at |
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112 |
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113 ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/fonts/postscript/cm/ |
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114 |
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115 These fonts are covered by this license: |
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116 |
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117 Paradissa fonts collection. |
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118 Copyright � 1993, Basil K. Malyshev. All Rights Reserved. |
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119 |
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120 Licensing agreement |
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121 |
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122 The author of this fonts grants to any individual or non-commercial organization the right to use and to make an unlimited number of |
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123 copies of full collection or selected fonts when this is done WITHOUT CHARGE and has attached this licence agreement. |
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124 |
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125 This fonts cannot be sold or distributed with any commercial product without written authorization from the author. If you want to |
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126 charge a small fee for distribute fonts as is or with any software, you should contact the author. |
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127 |
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128 This restriction is not intended to apply to connect time charges, or flat rate connection/download fees for electronic bulletin board |
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129 services. |
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130 |
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131 Basil K. Malyshev <[email protected]> 22 December 1993, Protvino, Russia. |