Hi, On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Caolán McNamara <caol...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 11:27 +0530, Parag N(पराग़) wrote: >> Currently, I have marked google-croscore-fonts as a optional package >> in comps-f18. Considering it has got more orthography support compared >> to Liberation font can we install it default? > >> But, I would also say that we have active development for Liberation >> font and if a bug comes for Liberation font we can fix it. > > The entries that exist in both Liberation fonts and Croscore are > basically identical glyphs right ?
Yes as I see both the fonts have glyphs developed by same vendor Ascender Corporation. > > Times New Roman metrics: Liberation Serif, Arimo > Courier New metrics: Liberation Mono, Cousine > Arial metrics: Liberation Sans, Tinos > Arial Narrow metrics: Liberation Sans Narrow, <no-equivalent ?> > > So there isn't a "Tinos Narrow", right ? Yes. The upstream tarball does not provide any Narrow variant. > Is it, at least theoretically, possible for Red Hat to > a) relicence the Liberation fonts under OFL and merge in the extra > glyphs ? Or are we painted into a corner somehow on that by 3rd party > contributions under LGPLv2 ? > b) Just create a new font based on the Croscore fonts using the OFL and > call it Liberation Fonts 2.0 > > If we're caught on Liberation Sans Narrow being donated through hdu from > Sun/Oracle under the GPLv2, split it off as a standalone "Narrow" > project remaining under the GPLv2 ? > I will check this with Liberation font developer. Regards, Parag. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
