Re: [Xorg] Re: [Fontconfig] adding/distributing new fonts

[Alan Coopersmith <Alan Coopersmith Sun COM>]

Ambrose Li wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 08:45:57AM +0900, Soon-Son Kwon wrote:
>
>
> > I think font is something like picture or novel which does
> > not need to be freely modified. The font designers won't like
> > that though some will. I remember that in the current xorg
> > distribution, modifiable/non-modifiable fonts are mixed.
>
>
> I agree that the designers won't like it, but I disagree that
> fonts need not be freely modified. 

The middle ground is the license used by the Bitstream Vera fonts
(which are the only fonts I know of added to Xorg recently) - they
allow changes, but only if you rename your changed version so it's
clear it's not the work of their designers.

http://www.gnome.org/fonts/

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