Here are some troublesome points: - Free font authors may well use non-free tools like FontLab to write them. E.g., the recent variants of Liberation Sans by Gustavo Ferreira. - Free fonts may have a source that requires free-beer tools to produce, like Adobe FDK, e.g. the TeX Gyre fonts: http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/ - Free fonts may require FOSS tools that Fedora does currently ship, e.g. metatype-1 for Latin Modern: http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/latin-modern. BTW, there are some issues with the lack of OTF versions of these fonts from Fedora's TeXLive, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455995#c24 On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Le Jeu 24 juillet 2008 01:11, Dave Crossland a écrit : >> >> 2008/7/23 Martin-Gomez Pablo <pablo.martin-gomez@xxxxxxxxxxx>: >>> >>> So we need to add a suffix to the name but I'm not imaginative for >>> finding a good suffix (maybe "iced" as Nicolas propose), anyone of >>> you have an lightning idea ? >> >> Why not use a build of FF from the same time the source files were >> published? > > 1. Other fonts in the distro depend on a recent fontforge release. If > we start requiring one fontforge version per font we're dead. > > 2. While the author objects most to the current fontforge version, I'm > almost sure he'd want us to change the font name even if we used the > exact same version as his. > > As the author says, we have to stand up for our own choices. Fedora > builds its content from sources. With fonts and pretty much anything > else that means aligning on a few build tool versions which are almost > certain not to be the same upstreams tested, and if this change > introduces problems, we have to track and get them fixed. > > (but at least we know we can re-generate and patch our version at > will, unlike organisations that copy a pre-built version and have no > idea how to fix it in case of problems) > > The author's feeling is not uncommon software-side too, you know. > > I think we'll try to bump the fontforge version in fedora-devel to the > latest available upstream just before F10 beta. And then rebuild every > font depending on it. This way Fedora 10 users will have a recent > fontforge in-distro and we'll be sure all our fonts work with it. > That's what we did in previous releases. > > Regards, > > -- > Nicolas Mailhot > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-fonts-list mailing list > Fedora-fonts-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list > > _______________________________________________ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
