CMap files freed

[Karl Berry]

Didier and all,

I believe GNU Ghostscript can finally include the CMap files now.
I looked at the license and I believe it is fine; standard stuff.

I haven't looked at the actual content to see if there are any
differences from what Aladdin Ghostscript, et al., have been
distributing.

Best,
karl


Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:24:37 -0700
From: Ken Lunde <address@hidden>

I would like to let you know that we just launched the "CMap  
Resources" open source project at Adobe, which puts all of our CMap  
resources under a more favorable open source license. Note that I  
excluded the Adobe-Japan2-0 CMap resources, because they have been in  
deprecated status ever since Adobe-Japan1-6 was released to completely  
cover JIS X 0212-1990.

Anyway, you can get the details here:

   http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/cmap/

When you have a chance, please notify the appropriate people in the  
open source community about this. I know that some of them have been  
asking us to provide our CMap resources under a more favorable  
license, and for them, that day has come.

With best regards...

-- Ken