On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 01:16:14PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > > [1] I have been told that the OpenOffice fonts are not free and were > pulled from CVS a short while ago. This puts ttf-openoffice > into question and any other package that contains a font included > in ttf-openoffice. I need confirmation of this before I can file > bugs. Are you sure? They were originally released with OO, and because of that should be regarded as free unless the original release was a mistake. But when I RFPed them, they were cvs removed because of X server errors - not license issues. Although I can't even find them anymore now through the CVS web view. Not even in Attic. Although I also can't find anything in the OO bugzilla or the list archives about license problems. Oh well. As a coincidence, I wrote down a number of URLs for font sites from an old magazine I threw away a few weeks ago and went hunting for free (as in speech) fonts. I've found some, but it was even harder than I thought it would've been. Expect an ITP soon. I've also found one particular font author who had a good number of `freeware' ones, which allowed just about anything except modification. I've contacted him, and his initial reply was positive. I'll see how things evolve. Regards, Filip -- "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." -- Sir Isaac Newton
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