Updates of liberation-fonts.
Qianqian Fang
fangqq at gmail.com
Sun May 11 19:47:51 UTC 2008
hi Caius
I've heard some controversies [1,2] about the GPLv2+Exception+Restriction
type of license for Liberation font families. I am wondering if there is
any plan
from Ascender or Redhat to make a clarification on this. The particular
reason
I ask is because I heard suggestions to port the Latin glyphs (vector or
rasterized
bitmaps) from Liberation to WenQuanYi ZenHei or BitmapSong, as the both
WenQuanYi Fonts are GPLv2+Font Embedding Exception license. Does
the additional restrictions of Liberation make it incompatible with GPL?
Qianqian
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts#License_controversy
[2] http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-legal@lists.debian.org/msg36584.html
Caius Carlos Chance wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is Caius Chance who is the package maintainer from Red Hat. I am
> writing for the recent updates of Liberation Fonts:
>
> - The latest stable version is liberation-fonts-1.03-1.fc9
> <http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=45785> .
>
> - The font tarball had been hosted on
> https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/. It is in trunk towards
> version 1.04.
>
> - The source on fh.o is still in progress of conversion. We are
> quality checking to see if the generated TTFs from SFDs (which
> generated from initial TTFs of original manufacturer) are the same.
>
> ref: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444392
>
> Best Regards,
> Caius.
>
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