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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472635 --- Comment #12 from rex.camposagr...@ascendercorp.com 2009-02-10 11:47:30 EDT --- While the necessity for Ascender to offer the Droid Pro fonts under a free license may not be extremely well received by the open-source community, please be aware that while we partner with several open-source providers and are happy to build fonts for these partners, no business model exists for font vendors if we were to release our IP directly under an open license. For the record, Our http://www.DroidFonts.com site does not offer any fonts under any free license. We have taken the Droid fonts under Apache v2 and have enhanced the Droid fonts as allowed under Apache v2. We are now offering the enhanced Droid Pro fonts under a proprietary EULA for a license fee, with proper credit being given to the underlying Apache covered portion of the fonts which we are licensing. We built the Droid Pro fonts because the professional graphic design and creative market was asking for them (in part to support the Android effort), but these users require enhanced character ranges and sometimes want OTF format fonts. There are also OEMs which require additional language support and additional weights and styles of Droid. >From our perspective, this is a win-win situation. The open community has another outstanding set of fonts (to add to the Liberation fonts we built for Red Hat) and we have the opportunity to satisfy demands for additional Droid support. We see this as very much like the business models of the Linux OS providers, who often supply a good base OS for free and then are able to stay in business by providing enhancements and support. I hope this helps to explain what we're up to. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Fedora-fonts-bugs-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-bugs-list