Re: Crashes on lack of times.ttf (bug 9623) and using Liberation Serif instead
2009/3/2 Remco : > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:06 PM, David Gerard wrote: >> The only problem I can see is that the Liberation fonts are GPL (plus >> font). Would including the font with the Wine download be possible >> without making Wine entirely GPL? > Yes, I would think that that constitutes mere aggregation, which is > allowed by the GPL and the LGPL. Of course, there are other possible metric-compatible fonts under GPL, e.g. Linux Libertine http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/ which looks more like Times than Liberation Serif does. But then we're getting into matters of taste :-) - d.
Re: Crashes on lack of times.ttf (bug 9623) and using Liberation Serif instead
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:06 PM, David Gerard wrote: > The only problem I can see is that the Liberation fonts are GPL (plus > font). Would including the font with the Wine download be possible > without making Wine entirely GPL? Yes, I would think that that constitutes mere aggregation, which is allowed by the GPL and the LGPL. Remco
Crashes on lack of times.ttf (bug 9623) and using Liberation Serif instead
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9623
Various versions of Photoshop, and now Safari 4, insist on Times New
Roman being present or they crash on startup. ("winetricks corefonts"
works around it.)
Packaging Liberation Serif with Wine and putting a registry key to
substitute Times New Roman with it would do the job and solve the bug
nicely.
The only problem I can see is that the Liberation fonts are GPL (plus
font). Would including the font with the Wine download be possible
without making Wine entirely GPL?
- d.
