James Cornell wrote:
> Most users are familiar with Bitstream Vera Sans because afaik it's
> unencumbered by royalties. For years it has been the default font used
> for most of KDE and X11.
Right - it's free to use, but due to the license, has been forked as the
DejaVu font, which is replacing Bitstream Vera in most open source projects
that use it, since DejaVu supports many more locales/charsets. (The Vera
license requires you change the name if you modify the font at all so that
it's clear it's no longer the artistic design of Bitstream.) The DejaVu
fonts are in Nevada, and should be in Indiana, but seem to have been left
out by accident, something we'll fix after DP2.
> I do prefer the Lucida and Adobe fonts, but so
> far no progress has been made with the petition to open up CDE.
Unfortunately, the Adobe Type1 Times, Helvetica, & Courier fonts included
in Solaris are not licensed in a way we can include them in Indiana. We
haven't gotten down to the Lucida fonts in the font license review list
yet, but are adding the open source Luxi fonts from XFree86, which I believe
are very similar in design.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
