Alan Coopersmith wrote: > 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. > Thanks for explaining the issues. I wasn't aware of Indiana licensing issues, although I can understand why... Indiana is more open-source and minimalistic than Solaris 10 or Nevada. (IE: Not requiring all of the bundled non-free Solaris software, fonts, etc.) I haven't looked at Luxi, but will since as you say, by design it's very similar. I suppose the reason I did not know about DejaVu was because of the omission in Indiana, and it not being the default for everything yet, at least in some X11 programs in Nevada. Do you know when DejaVu will be integrated, and is there a timeframe for Lucida?
James
