STIX license issues?

[Vasile Gaburici]

I recall watching a Barbara Beeton's TUG talk recording that some
people didn't like the STIX font license, and were waiting for the
GUST Math font. Does anyone know what exactly the problems are? I see
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal_considerations_for_fonts#preferred-licen...)
that Fedora considers the STIX license okay...

[Nicolas Spalinger]

Vasile Gaburici wrote:
> I recall watching a Barbara Beeton's TUG talk recording that some
> people didn't like the STIX font license, and were waiting for the
> GUST Math font. Does anyone know what exactly the problems are? I see
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal_considerations_for_fonts#preferred-licen...)
> that Fedora considers the STIX license okay...

They listened to feedback from various people in the community and have 
dropped their own license and moved to the OFL:
http://www.stixfonts.org/user_license.html
http://www.stixfonts.org/STIXfaq.html

Looking forward to the the final release they are promising for this 
summer :-)

[Vasile Gaburici]

Thanks for the info. BTW, does anyone know how to contact the STIX
fokes? The feedback form on their site sends a bouncing email.

They miss some Romanian characters from the text part of the font.
Granted, I could edit the font after the release, but giving them
feedback before seem better...

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Nicolas Spalinger
 wrote:
> Vasile Gaburici wrote:
> > I recall watching a Barbara Beeton's TUG talk recording that some
> > people didn't like the STIX font license, and were waiting for the
> > GUST Math font. Does anyone know what exactly the problems are? I see
> >
> > (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal_considerations_for_fonts#preferred-licen...)
> > that Fedora considers the STIX license okay...
>
> They listened to feedback from various people in the community and have
> dropped their own license and moved to the OFL:
> http://www.stixfonts.org/user_license.html
> http://www.stixfonts.org/STIXfaq.html
>
> Looking forward to the the final release they are promising for this summer
> :-)
>
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[Nicolas Spalinger]

Vasile Gaburici wrote:
> Thanks for the info. BTW, does anyone know how to contact the STIX
> fokes? The feedback form on their site sends a bouncing email.
>
> They miss some Romanian characters from the text part of the font.
> Granted, I could edit the font after the release, but giving them
> feedback before seem better...

I'd suggest contacting Barbara directly.
Her details are on http://www.ams.org/STIX/

[Nicolas Mailhot]

On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:31 +0300, Vasile Gaburici wrote:
> I recall watching a Barbara Beeton's TUG talk recording that some
> people didn't like the STIX font license, and were waiting for the
> GUST Math font. Does anyone know what exactly the problems are? I see
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal_considerations_for_fonts#preferred-licen...)
> that Fedora considers the STIX license okay...

Though we obviously disagree with Debian on the meaning of the original
STIX license (Debians arguments were most unconvincing), we do agree
it's a badly worded license (writers of new junk font licenses should be
shot, I'm thinking about you GUST and you Liberation lawyers).
Fortunately upstream has promised OFL-ing "soon" ("soon" in STIX speak
is not the on timescale you're used to, STIX happens in a strange
slow-motion plane)