Re: Bug#169772: ITP: xfonts-freefont -- free scalable fonts
$ apt-cache policy ttf-freefont
ttf-freefont:
Installed: 20021016-1
Candidate: 20021016-1
Version Table:
*** 20021016-1 0
500 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org sid/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$ grep Author /usr/share/doc/ttf-freefont/copyright
Upstream Author(s): Primoz Peterlin
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 07:39:17PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Version: N/A; reported 2002-11-19
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name : xfonts-freefont
> Version : 2002.10.11
> Upstream Author : Primoz Peterlin <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
> * URL : http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/
> * License : GPL-2
> Description : free scalable fonts
>
> The new Red Hat 8.0 (which uses UTF-8 thoroughly) uses these fonts as
> standard fonts for its environment. I think we have enough time to do
> the same before the official release of sarge.
>
> I would like to ask if you agree with the name of the package. The
> upstream uses the name "Freefont", but it is possible that this name
> will confuse some of the people who have heard that there is also a
> package named freefont which despite its name is not free.
>
> I intend to use this as a description of the package:
>
> This package installs a set of free scalable fonts. The set consists
> of three typefaces: one monospaced and two proportional (one with
> uniform and one with modulated stroke).
> .
> These fonts support a large set of scripts and glyphs: Arabic,
> Armenian, Bengali, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Greek, Gujarati,
> Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Latin, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Thaana and
> Thai scripts, as well as some mathematical operators, dingbaths,
> currency symbols, arrows and some other symbols.
> .
> These fonts should be standard for any GNU operating system which
> claims to support Unicode. They also aim to stop switching of the
> free software users from the free X11 bitmapped fonts to the
> proprietary fonts of one well known software corporation.
> .
> This Debian package includes TrueType versions of the fonts.
>
> Anton Zinoviev
>
>
>
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