Hi, Blender's default font (Bfont = DejaVu Sans fonts) is embedded in the program binary, so the Bfont is distributed under GPL. However, this GPLed DejaVu fonts still inherit the following hateful restrictions:
- The Font Software may be modified, altered, or added to, and in particular the designs of glyphs or characters in the Fonts may be modified and additional glyphs or characters may be added to the Fonts, only if the fonts are renamed to names not containing either the words "Bitstream" or the word "Vera". - The Font Software may be modified, altered, or added to, and in particular the designs of glyphs or characters in the Fonts may be modified and additional glyphs or characters may be added to the Fonts, only if the fonts are renamed to names not containing either the words "Tavmjong Bah" or the word "Arev". - The Font Software may be sold as part of a larger software package but no copy of one or more of the Font Software typefaces may be sold by itself. Such "further restrictions" apparently violate the GPL. To avoid the license violation, Blender has to drop the Bitstream Vera derivative fonts (Bfont + Bmonofont) or load these fonts from separate font files as runtime data on startup. The international fonts don't cause the problem because they are distributed as separate font files in 2.6x/datafiles/fonts/ directory. Thanks -- IRIE Shinsuke _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers