[Openfontlibrary] droid fonts

[Jon Phillips]

On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 16:31 +0000, Dave Crossland wrote:
> On 15/11/2007, Gustavo Ferreira <grilo at centroin.com.br> wrote:
> >
> > it seems like the plattform is going to be free software – but not
> > the fonts?
> 
> The 5 page PDF type specimen PDF -
> http://www.ascendercorp.com/pdf/Droid_fonts.pdf - from the Ascender
> website has the following introductory text:
> 
> "The Droid Typeface Family was designed in the Fall of 2006 by
> Ascender's Steve Matteson. The goal was to provide optimal quality and
> comfort on a mobile handset when rendered in application menus, web
> browsers and for other screen text. Ascender Corporation worked
> closely with the Open Handset Alliance to develop these system fonts
> for the Android platform – a complete mobile phone software stack that
> will be made available under the Apache open source license."
> 
> I read 'system fonts for the Android platform ... that will be made
> available under the Apache open source license' :-)

Dave, why don't you go ahead and directly contact them and find out the
license they want to apply to these...I think ask first and then
persuade to do OFL later :)

Jon

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