GUST Font License

SPDX Identifier: Not on SPDX

Quick Summary

The GUST Font License is a permissive license used primarily by the GUST (Dutch "Gebruikersgroep U TeX") group for TeX-related fonts. It allows free use, modification, and redistribution.

Permissions Overview

✅ Allows For

Context	Permission	Notes
Academic	✅ Full
Non-commercial	✅ Full
Commercial (Static)	✅ Full
Commercial (Server)	✅ Full
Web (Hosting)	✅ Full
Web (Subsetting)	✅ Full
Desktop	✅ Full
Server/CI	✅ Full
Redistribution	✅ Full	Must include license
Modification	✅ Full	Must rename
Format Conversion	✅ Full

⚠️ Conditional

Permission	Condition
Redistribution	Must include license and copyright notice
Modification	Must rename the font

❌ Disallows For

Permission	Notes
Sale	Cannot sell fonts by themselves

Sample License Text

From formula: tex_gyre_math

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% This is a preliminary version (2006-09-30), barring acceptance from
% the LaTeX Project Team and other feedback, of the GUST Font License.
% (GUST is the Polish TeX Users Group, http://www.gust.org.pl)
%
% For the most recent version of this license see
% http://www.gust.org.pl/fonts/licenses/GUST-FONT-LICENSE.txt
% or
% http://tug.org/fonts/licenses/GUST-FONT-LICENSE.txt
%
% This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c of this
% license or (at your option) any later version.
%
% Please also observe the following clause:
% 1) it is requested, but not legally required, that derived works be
%    distributed only after changing the names of the fonts comprising this
%    work and given in an accompanying "manifest", and that the
%    files comprising the Work, as listed in the manifest, also be given
%    new names. Any exceptions to this request are also given in the
%    manifest.
%
%    We recommend the manifest be given in a separate file named
%    MANIFEST-<fontid>.txt, where <fontid> is some unique identification
%    of the font family. If a separate "readme" file accompanies the Work,
%    we recommend a name of the form README-<fontid>.txt.
%
% The latest version of the LaTeX Project Public License is in
% http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.3c or later
% is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2006/05/20 or later.

See Also

• GUST Font License
• TeX Gyre Fonts