[xorg-bugzilla-noise] [Bug 1401] Please add KOI8-R fonts to X.org tree

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------- Additional Comments From D.Yu.Bolkhovityanov at inp.nsk.su  2004-09-22 05:20 -------
> What I will do is to merge these fonts properly with the ISO10646-1 fonts,
> and from there various 8-bit fonts (including KOI-8R) can be automatically
> extracted using the existing facilities. We should certainly not add these
> as separately maintained 8-bit fonts.

Yes, this is quite clear.  I'm sorry for a bit misleading bugreport title.  Of
course, the intent was/is to add cyrillic glyphs to 10646-1 fonts.

Regarding license issues: I fully agree with you that probably original
suppliers don't care about these ancient fonts.

And all Adobe fonts (Courier, Helvetica, Times) contain a license in COMMENT
clause, which in particular states that

"Permission to use, copy, MODIFY, distribute and sell this software
and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby
granted..."

So, at least those fonts allow any manipulations -- both computer-authored (as
are yours) and human-made (as adding cyrillics).

And, if there are any doubts -- why can't we implement your 2-years old idea to
rename all these fonts to "-XFree86-something" or "-Xorg-something" and create a
 coherent set of aliases with names "-Adobe-*" and "-B&H-*".        
   
   
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