On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:25:59AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > At LinuxWorld Expo there was much talk of the fonts Bitstream was making > available for free use (mainly for GNOME). It appears that they have been > released in a preliminary version at http://gnome.org/fonts/ > > Is anyone planning on packaging them? At the moment, they are available > with a restriction on redistribution, but that didn't prevent a Debian > package from being created for the MS core fonts (msttcorefonts). It would > be great if someone decided to package them as they are, with a download as > part of the install script, then rev the package with the actual fonts when > the final, redistributable versions come out. > > Any takers? This has just come up on the debian-legal list, and the consensus seems to be to just wait until they're released under the proper license. There doesn't seem to be a consensus on whether the future license will be Free or not though... That said, they're fairly trivial to use right now (even I got it to work:), and they're pretty good looking. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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