[Openfontlibrary] [Fwd: Updates of liberation-fonts.]

[Gustavo Ferreira]

hello nicolas,

this is what i thought, thanks for explaining.

regards,
- gustavo.


On May 7, 2008, at 3:52 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> Le mercredi 07 mai 2008 à 15:07 -0300, Gustavo Ferreira a écrit :
>> hello,
>>
>>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=45785
>>
>> reading the changelog in the link above, it seems like there were
>> only small changes in some metainfo fields, and no changes in the
>> design (except for "alignement mismatch dot accents") -- is that
>> right?
>
> My (limited) understanding is Liberation is getting re-hosted from
> RedHat to Fedora with the objective to set it up as a normal floss
> project, with regular public releases, scripted build-from-source, sfd
> sources in a VCS, patch merging, etc.
>
> So the first step is not so much changing the font as switching its
> infrastructure so it can be maintained as a community project (like
> DejaVu, Lohit, etc)
>
> You can get more answers on the Fedora fonts list
>
>> also: was the license updated to plain GPL+font exception, without
>> the polemic extra clauses under which the first release came out?
>>
>> and finally: is there a zip with the current ttf versions of the
>> fonts somewhere?
>
> -- 
> Nicolas Mailhot