Are you sure RedHat8 uses these fonts? When I installed the RedHat beta, they were using the luxi series of fonts from B&H, which are not DFSG compliant. 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 > > > -- michael cardenas | lead software engineer, lindows.com hyperpoem.net | GNU/Linux software developer people.debian.org/~mbc | encrypted email preferred "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free... it expects what never was and never will be." - Thomas Jefferson
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