From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2006-11-13T12:11:34+09:00 Subject: Re: TTF/Ruby, first release! On 11/12/06, Mathieu Blondel wrote: > Austin Ziegler wrote: > > Hi, Mathieu. This looks great. I was wondering if it might be possible > > to convince your employers to relicense this under Ruby's licence, > > though. The reason I suggest this is that it will ultimately be more > > compatible with a larger group of Ruby programs. I would like to be > > able to provide hooks to this library in PDF::Writer, but I don't feel > > comfortable doing so under just the GNU GPL. > Hi, Austin. It was agreed that from now on I own the copyright of this > project since the company will never use it itself. So the licence is > not an issue. I will use double licencing like Ruby. How do you plan to > use it in PDF::Writer? I probably won't be using it for about six months or so (non-open source projects have to take precedence for right now), but one of the things that's problematic about PDF::Writer is that to use True Type fonts, you must have a font metrics file (.afm) usually generated by ttf2afm or something like that. So asking you to make it so that such an .afm could be generated by TTFRuby would be a very good first step. Ultimately, once I'm certain of exactly what data structure I need, I may ask you to make it so that I can call TTFRuby (if installed) to get the font metrics information for laying out the text using a TrueType (and hopefully OpenType) font. It's not quite where you are yet, but I'm as impressed for this because it was something I knew I'd have to tackle in the end. PDF::Writer is (and will remain) MIT-licensed, but I feel more comfortable with the Ruby dual-licensing on software that I will be using as a client ultimately. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * http://www.halostatue.ca/ * austin@halostatue.ca * http://www.halostatue.ca/feed/ * austin@zieglers.ca