[Openfontlibrary] red hat liberation fonts

[Jon Phillips]

On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 03:12 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote:
> On 10/05/07, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> 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



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