hi Caius
I've heard some controversies [1,2] about the GPLv2+Exception+Restriction
type of license for Liberation font families. I am wondering if there is
any plan
from Ascender or Redhat to make a clarification on this. The particular
reason
I ask is because I heard suggestions to port the Latin glyphs (vector or
rasterized
bitmaps) from Liberation to WenQuanYi ZenHei or BitmapSong, as the both
WenQuanYi Fonts are GPLv2+Font Embedding Exception license. Does
the additional restrictions of Liberation make it incompatible with GPL?
Qianqian
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts#License_controversy
[2] http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg36584.html
Caius Carlos Chance wrote:
Hi,
This is Caius Chance who is the package maintainer from Red Hat. I am
writing for the recent updates of Liberation Fonts:
- The latest stable version is liberation-fonts-1.03-1.fc9
<http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=45785> .
- The font tarball had been hosted on
https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/. It is in trunk towards
version 1.04.
- The source on fh.o is still in progress of conversion. We are
quality checking to see if the generated TTFs from SFDs (which
generated from initial TTFs of original manufacturer) are the same.
ref: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444392
Best Regards,
Caius.
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