FLOSS Multimedia Support in Fedora

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le lundi 09 février 2009 à 20:47 +0100, Martin Sourada a écrit :

> Yep, licensing issues are problems, but openly licensed fonts aren't
> usually not easy to find 

More packagers welcome :p

> - it's much more convenient to embed say purisa
> into the file 

Just like static libs...

> than requiring your users to either find it themselves and
> install it

Fedora 11 will have automatic font installation for every app that cares
to support it.

> or being satisfied with a fallback font (which might not
> satisfy the artistic concerns that led you to the choice of the original
> font).

Artistic concerns are fine and dandy but they usually sink on the legal
and i18n icebergs. Which I think the anime crowd at least cares about.

BTW, we already ship fonts like Tiresias which were explicitely designed
for video titling.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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