On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 10:20 -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > > 2) I am looking for replacements for Microsoft Corefonts which are > > > TrueType fonts from Microsoft with WGL4 (Windows Glyph List 4) charset: > > > > I'm not aware of anything like replacements for these fonts. While not > > free software, you can get these from http://corefonts.sf.net and they > > are freely redistributable, which IMO is the most important freedom in > > free software. > > The real fonts do have a license that prohibit modification (which could > mean providing package of files extracted from original "cab" file(s)) and > doesn't allow any profit such as including it in a CD that is sold. > > The sourceforge project provides: "The src rpm is cleverly constructed so > that the actual fonts are downloaded from Sourceforge's site at build > time. Therefore this package technically does not 'redistribute' the > fonts, it just makes it easy to install them on a linux system." > > As another example, Ubuntu's msttcorefonts package says: "allows for easy > installation" and "You will need an Internet connection to download these > fonts if you don't already have them." > > This is why I am looking for alternatives so I can suggest them to package > users.
Check also the DejaVu fonts. They are based on Bitstream Vera, and add support for many more scripts. I believe the project has achieved WGL4 coverage. See http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/ Fedora, Ubuntu and probably other distributions have DejaVu as the default system fonts. Simos
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