contributing new font package for xorg (fwd)

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Fri Aug 12 01:27:39 PDT 2005


On Iau, 2005-08-11 at 14:43 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> Are the actual mechanics of font embedding such that the process could
> be considered to be "mere aggregation"?  It doesn't seem terribly
> different from just making a tarball of the PDF and necessary fonts.

In the general case - no because the font is subroutines called by the
document. Bitmap might be a little different but even then you'd have to
include the font source, copyright, offer etc

Alan



More information about the xorg mailing list