Re: Four (open-source) Greek fonts are now available, and why it's relevant

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

So, a more detailed followup to my first 'ooh, cool' post, and moving
to board a bit

I would love to do a press release, but it obviously opens up
questions of 'when will bitstream vera sans 1.0.1 come out?', which we
don't have answers to :)

Also, as far as I can tell (and please correct me if I'm wrong, Simos)
the only link to gnome here is that these fonts use the same license
as the fonts at gnome.org/fonts/, correct? That is an awfully tenous
link to market around, it seems to me, but I'm open to convincing?

/me thinks out loud...

Maybe we could move all the fonts to freedesktop, move the mailing
list there, get them hosted there, and include these other two fonts
with the same license at the same place (ideally), and do some press
around that? That seems like a much better place than gnome.org for
them, realistically, from a technical/organizational point of view,
anyway.

Luis (who has gotten into the bad habit of brainstorming aloud on lists :)

On 5/15/05, Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net> wrote:
> Hi,
> Just to announce the availability of four Greek fonts, at
> http://www.ellak.gr/fonts/mgopen/
> 
> Why it matters to the marketing list?
> There are limited non-latin fonts which are distributed as open-source.
> It's important to populate the list of available open-source fonts for a
> language, as they can be made available on any Linux distribution. A
> graphical environment (such as GNOME) is made more appealing to the
> end-user if there are beautiful fonts available.
> 
> Until now, Greek GNOME users had freefont (FreeSerif and FreeSans) as
> the only good quality proportional fonts for the graphical interface.
> 
> All, these fonts were previously commercial and got recently donated.
> The licence process chosen was that of the Bitstream Vera fonts, at
> http://www.gnome.org/fonts/ initiated by the GNOME Foundation.
> 
> Another example of a font distributed with a Bitstream Vera-style
> license is Nafees Web Naskh (http://crulp.org/nafeesWebNaskh.html).