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

[Zdenek Wagner]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Arnost Stedry wrote:

> 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
>
Lepsi je napsat to Karlu Berrymu <karl at freefriends.org>, nebo do
diskusniho listu TeXLive.

> 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/
> >         http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
> >
> >---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >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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Zdenek Wagner
e-mail: wagner at cesnet.cz

see also http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
         http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz