Re: [Fwd: New Bitstream technology comes to Linux and Desktop/LX]
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, David Palmer wrote:
> This is a newsletter from the Lycoris Linux commercial distribution,
> concerning something new in font/font management.
> I'm not aware of the licencing details (I would be very surprised if it
> could be classified as 'free'). Point the first.
It's not remotely free. (Though Bitstream have made the
specification for the underlying formats open so at the very least a free
as in beer clone could be made. Perhaps free as in speech. I looked
at the licenses a long time ago.)
> Point the second: There seems to be an ever accelerating interest in the
> proprietary section toward incorporating free/open source software into
> "hybrid" environments. This has a double implication for me - (1)
> Proprietary vendors wanting to incorporate FOSS to extend and enhance
> marketability of their product/s. (2) The possibility of proprietary
> interests incorporating FOSS into their productline,
Nothing wrong with that.
> and then by way of
> this assuming a legal posture in the possession aspect.
How could they? By using GPL licensed products they have agreed not to do
that.
> Point the third: Lycoris is based on a Caldera base, and I'm not sure
> how this would stand with the SCO situation.
Again I don't see how it could.
> But it looks good, as all dangerous toys do, so I thought that it might
> be of interest anyway.
> Regards,
Meh. Maybe some font fetishists will be interested in this but I can't
see 99.9% of Linux users caring. Certainly not enough to switch
distributions for it. Freetype2 with proper tweaking gives excellent
quality fonts.
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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
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