> STIX made this change after some communication with me, because the > previous version was clearly nonfree and Barbara Beeton(*) persevered in > getting them to review it. > > We urged them to use the OFL (or any existing free license, for that > matter), but they chose not to. I don't know why not.
Well, it seems like they listened to recommendations from you and Barbara (and probably other reviewers and beta testers in the community): http://www.stixfonts.org/user_license.html http://www.stixfonts.org/STIXfaq.html The announcement dates back a few months now but IMHO it's great news for this rich set of scientific and mathematical Unicode fonts to be planned for release under the OFL :-) > Best, > Karl > > (*) For those who don't know her: Barbara is a very long-time member of > the TeX and typographic communities, and one of the hardest workers on > the STIX project. -- Nicolas Spalinger http://scripts.sil.org http://pkg-fonts.alioth.debian.org/ https://launchpad.net/people/fonts
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