Re: Potential availability of new fonts, Stix fonts

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

This really isn't the right place for licensing concerns. It might be
best to forward this to Jim Gettys, but I don't have a current email
address for him- do any of the lurkers here have that?

Luis

On 9/3/05, Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net> wrote:
> 
> 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
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