[tex-live] Open Font License 1.0 released (fwd)

[Arnost Stedry]

problem gentia je v tom, ze tento font neni v zadnem pripade uplny a
vykazuje celkem dost odchylek od standardu.

hlavni problemy jsou asi tyto:

1. ma jen dva rezy (normalni a kurzivu)
2. kurziva nepokryva vsechny znaky ktere pokryva "roman"
3. znaky ve fontu jsou chaoticky pojmenovane
4. autor nekomunikuje

svoji podporu pro gentium dam samozrejme rad k dispozici (uz jsem to
jakymsi zpusobem i udelal), ale nevim, jestli je vhodne takovy font
vubec zarazovat do nejake distribuce

arnost

Zdenek Wagner wrote:

>Preposilam e-mail z listu TeXLive. Mam pocit, ze nekdo pouziva font
>Gentium. Co takhle nabidnout vytvoreni TeXove podpory pro pristi TL?
>
>Zdenek Wagner
>e-mail: wagner at cesnet.cz
>
>see also http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
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>Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:19:38 -0600
>From: Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>
>To: tex-live at tug.org
>Subject: [tex-live] Open Font License 1.0 released
>
>FYI, as some of you know may already know, SIL has released the OFL
>version 1.0
>(http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=OFL).
>I have attached it, and their explanatory FAQ.
>
>In this version, they weakened the selling clause to be like of Vera for
>Gnome (can't sell by itself, but selling in conjunction with anything
>else, e.g., Hello, World, is ok).  Since this was deemed acceptable for
>Vera, I am going to presume it is acceptable here as well.  (I've asked
>rms and licensing at gnu.org for a ruling, but don't expect that to happen
>soon.)
>
>This seemed to me like the major stumbling block to the previous draft
>being a free license.  So my opinion of the moment, barring further
>input, is that this license is ok for TeX Live and other free software
>distributions.  Which means that we will soon be able to distribute
>Gentium, if we can create the necessary TeX support :).
>
>Karl
>
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