Re: font presents in http://www.webpagepublicity.com

[Clemens Ladisch]

Olive wrote:
 The page mentioned in the subject contains high quality fonts. [...]
 
 Digital Font Labs - Copyright (c) , 2000. .. FREEWARE ... Use
 this font at your own free will.
 
 But this seems to beautiful to be true, so does anyone know more about
 this website? Is the above copyright real or forged?

Forged.  Whoever did this forgot to remove Monotype and Microsoft
from the version string.  Apart from the misrepresented authorship, the
font is identical to the arial.ttf shipped with Windows.

Using a trademark owned by Monotype wouldn't be a good idea anyway.


Regards,
Clemens


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font presents in http://www.webpagepublicity.com

[Olive]

The page mentioned in the subject contains high quality fonts. Some of 
them have very good non antialiased rendering (necessitate the bytecode 
interpreter in freetype though, but this is not the topic of my 
question). In fact we find some font which appears to be identical in 
the rendering of the so called microsoft true type core font. The page 
do not display any copyright information, but it is a notice on the some 
of the file theirself, for example the Arial.ttf contains the following 
(visible with the true type viewer of MS Windows or strings filename | 
grep -i copyright):


Digital Font Labs - Copyright (c) , 2000. .. FREEWARE ... Use 
this font at your own free will.


This should be DFSGF.

But this seems to beautiful to be true, so does anyone know more about 
this website? Is the above copyright real or forged? A search on the web 
seems that this site is rather popular so I hope one of you know more. 
If (some of) these fonts appears to be really free, it might be 
worthwhile to include some of them in Debian.


Olive


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