I've got some expert comments on the fonts. There are some issues with the conversion... Details here: http://www.typophile.com/node/47578 On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Vasile Gaburici <vgaburici@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I suspect the person that did the work used his employers' (very) > non-free software to do the job, and said person is probably at risk > of getting fired if found out. But who says we cannot use the result > if it is GPL'd. Furthermore, the modification dates of the files > inside the archive indicates that this happened 5 years ago, so it may > be really hard to trace who did it. > > Also, in my enthusiasm I omitted the fact that these fonts are based > on the ghostscript 6.0 fonts, before Cyrillic glyphs were added. E.g., > Nimbus Roman Regular's PS Core is version 1.05, not 1.06. The Cyrillic > glyphs need to be merged in. > > Probably the cleanest thing to do is redo the conversion starting with > the current version of gs-fonts (8.11). We can use the "goose" version > as model for what the result should look like (kerning, ligatures > etc.) Any experts here that can help with that? > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Nicolas Mailhot > <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Le lundi 21 juillet 2008 à 00:48 +0300, Vasile Gaburici a écrit : >>> I've found CFF OpenType versions of the ghostscript URW fonts. AFAICT, >>> they are well done: have kerning pairs (using the correct 'kern' >>> feature for CFF files), has ligatures etc. They also fix the missing >>> mappings for Romanian (no locl table yet...). The only troublesome >>> point may that the author of the conversion seems to want to remain >>> anonymous. The license of the fonts is still GPL. >> >> You need to trace this version to its ultimate source, talk with >> fedora-legal (or spot) and convince the current package maintainer to >> switch font sources >> >> -- >> Nicolas Mailhot >> > _______________________________________________ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
