The fonts that shipped with JDK may be have been reshipped by B&H to
other customers
but there were many things done custom for JDK, and particularly for
Lucida Sans.
A lot depends on what you depend on but I think the only way to guarantee
equivalence is to go ask B&H directly for a license for the *exact* same
fonts as licensed
to Oracle JDK. A 3rd party would be unlikely to know what the JDK fonts
contain.
Asking your customers to do this would be your decision .. but I think
shipping
with your product would be better than that if terms can be agreed.
-phil.
On 12/26/18, 3:14 AM, MN, Jayanarayanan wrote:
Season's Greetings!
My team is currently working on migrating some of our (mostly Desktop
& Swing-based) applications from OracleJDK 8 to OpenJDK 11 and we have
discovered that Lucida fonts are not distributed with OpenJDK.
This and other font changes are discussed in the chain here:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-November/004629.html
Does anyone have any further advice on how best to enable our
customers to continue to use these fonts?
Is it feasible for us to obtain an OEM license to ship the fonts (as
Oracle presumably did with OracleJDK 10 and earlier)?
Or does anyone know of an open source alternative that is close enough
to the fonts previously shipped with OracleJDK?
Or will our customers have to license the fonts themselves in order to
use them in our future releases?
Based on initial research, I had found the following site which
appears to license the fonts for individuals, sites or OEMs:
https://tug.org/store/lucida/index.html
Can anyone confirm that this is the correct point of contact regarding
the Lucida fonts?
Jayan
