Re: [gnome-cyr] [louie ximian com: fontilicious]

[Yanko Kaneti <yaneti declera com>]

On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 10:22, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> Привет всем!
> 
> На всякий случай отправлю-ка сюда.
> Интересно, есть ли в шрифтах русские глифы и дает ли лицензия право
> добавлять новые глифы..


wrt the coverage here are some relevant quotes:

Jim Gettys on footnotes:
http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=877#5917
"When finished, they will go under a copyright which allows you
(roughly) to fold, spindle, and mutilate the fonts, so long as you
change the name to something else, and you can sell them so long as you
don't sell them by themselves. You can sell them with any software
whatsoever. You can freely redistribute the fonts anywhere, anytime,
unmodified under that name. 

The sale provision is that Bitstream does not want other font vendors to
just drop the fonts into their font sale mechanisms and sell them,
something they are giving away. 

I can't say I blame them.

3) the coverage of these fonts is roughly western european; there is the
possibility of some fonts in the future with wider coverage, but as that
those fonts are not yet complete, I don't want to say much more, as
their availability is much less certain."

Bob Thomas - Director of Product Management at Bitstream (in a mail
exchange with Alexander Shopov (a bulgarian translator)):

"Dear Alexander,
 
Thank you for your kind words. We think this will give all users and 
developers in the Linux community a font solution right out of the box.
I hope you soon get a chance to use our Bitstream Vera font family !
Stay  tuned to GNOME to see which version our fonts will be released in.
I think they will be in GNOME v2.3.
 
We at Bitstream are trying to work with the GNOME Foundation to provide 
a small set of WGL4 fonts. WGL4 fonts include Cyrillic characters. 
However, this is all in early development right now, and nothing has
been set in stone. So it would be wrong for me to say, Yes, we plan to 
provide WGL4 character set support, including Cyrillic support.
 
Please stay tuned for further developments. Our goal is to help GNOME 
and the open source community as much as possible.
 
Kind regards,
-Bob Thomas
Bitstream Inc.
"

> ----- Forwarded message from Luis Villa <louie ximian com> -----
> 
> From: Luis Villa <louie ximian com>
> Subject: fontilicious
> Date: 22 Jan 2003 12:12:25 -0500
> To: gnome-hackers gnome org, desktop-devel-list gnome org
> Organization: 
> X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.3.0.99 (Preview Release)
> 
> Hey, guys- I just got done with a press conference (wearing my
> foundation board member hat) to announce some fonty goodness. In a
> nutshell, for those of you who read foundation meeting minutes, Jim
> Gettys finally suceeded in fulfilling his action item. For those of you
> who don't read foundation meeting minutes, Jim has succeeded in getting
> Bitstream, Inc., to release fonts. 10 of them, in the Vera family.
> They'll be available for download in the next week or so, and for
> download, distribution with gnome, and some forms of modification in
> about a month.
> 
> Quickie screenshot (CVS HEAD abi, much thanks to them and to fontilus
> for providing a great demo platform):
> 
> http://tieguy.org/fonts.png
> 
> More details later, if I can get a net connection and a link to the
> press release-
> 
> Luis