FYI: Bitstream To Donate 10 Fonts To Free Software

[BackupUser]

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by koehler.


Fred, not sure if this is germane, however since you are developing for 3 different platforms, I thought this might be of some interest.

http://www.gnome.org/pr-bitstreamfonts.html

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Press Contact:
Leslie Proctor
GNOME Foundation
(801)446-4638
[url]mailto:proctors@pacbell.net[/url]

Bob Thomas
Director of Product Management
Bitstream Inc.
(617)520-8376
[url]mailto:bthomas@bitstream.com[/url]

GNOME FOUNDATION AND BITSTREAM INC. ANNOUNCE LONG-TERM
AGREEMENT TO BRING HIGH QUALITY FONTS TO FREE SOFTWARE


Ten fonts will be released for use under a special
open license agreement, giving advanced font
capabilities to all free and open source software
developers and users.

NEW YORK, New York January 22, 2003 In a move to
fill the last remaining gap in font display
capabilities for open source software, the GNOME
Foundation has reached an agreement with Bitstream
(NASDAQ: BITS) to release fonts under an open source
license. A total of ten serif, sans serif and
monospaced fonts will be released under a special open
source license, after they have been adapted to meet
the requirements for technical use. The set of ten
fonts will bring advanced font capabilities to all
developers and users of free and open source software.

"The donation of these fonts to the free software
community is the final piece that will give full
functionality to projects like Freetype, XFT2 and X
Render extensions of the XFree86 project, Pango, KDE
and Trolltechs QT, among many others." said Jim
Gettys of HP and GNOME Foundation board member.
"These fonts will be available to all developers and
users, giving GNOME and other open source programs a
great look right out of the box that has been lacking
until now."

The Bitstream Vera fonts will be available for free
copying and redistribution and can be modified as long
as the font name is changed. The fonts cannot be
packaged by themselves for sale, but can be sold with
any software. The GNOME Foundation will incorporate
the fonts into future GNOME releases, giving end users
of all levels, as well as GNOME developers, the
advanced display capabilities they offer.

[BackupUser]

Restored from previous forum. Originally posted by fred.

The font are an OS/Window Manager issue, not a program issue (may be a word processor ?). But thanks to point this out !

Fred - AlphaSND