Potential availability of new fonts, Stix fonts

[Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net>]

Hi All,
A project that has been running for around 10 years to create a set of 
fonts of the academic community, is about to release the work near the 
end of the 2005. The font has glyphs (characters) for Latin Basic, Latin 
Extended A and B, Cyrillic and Greek, making it quite valuable if it 
could be open-source/freedom software.

They just announced a draft distribution license of the fonts, that 
roughly resembles the license of Bitstream Vera, with caveats.
See http://www.stixfonts.org/user_license.html
At the same page you can send comments on the license.

A write-up is available at
http://www.livejournal.com/users/simosx/2764.html

I tried to get debian-legal to give some concrete direction
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/09/msg00004.html

If you can chip in and make sure the license is properly free, it would 
be good for the community.

Simos