On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 03:12 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote: > On 10/05/07, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 19:14 -0100, Gustavo Ferreira wrote: > > > > http://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/ > > > > I wonder who the best person at Redhat is to contact about asking for > > an OFL release? :-) > > The actual links to the files are now up, and are at > > https://www.redhat.com/f/fonts/liberation-fonts-ttf.tar.gz > > There is a press release at > http://www.press.redhat.com/2007/05/09/liberation-fonts/ about this > from Mark Webbink, Deputy General Counsel and Secretary, and the beef > is: > > 0. They are under the GPL+font exception > 1. They are metrically equivalent fonts to TNR, Arial and Courier > 2. Version 2 with full hinting will be out by 2008 > 3. Ascender Corp did it (they do a lot of Microsoft's fontwork, > especially hinting, iirc) > 4. Ascender retains rights to make them available as proprietary software > 5. The family is trademarked "Liberation"
I'm cc'ing Andy Fitzsimon and Jack Aboutboul to see who to connect with at RedHat for trying to get them dual-licensed at least with Open Font License and/or something less restrictive. Also, I would like to underline that GPL is for source code. Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Openfontlibrary mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
