Re: [Trisquel-users] Documentation fonts
Read this thread: http://trisquel.info/en/forum/ubuntu-fonts-license
Re: [Trisquel-users] Documentation fonts
I guess so. If so, then it's very convenient for the free software community to use it! :D The Ubuntu Font Licence allows the fonts to be used, studied, modified and redistributed freely given that the license terms are met. The license is copyleft and all derivative works must be distributed under the same license. Documents that use the fonts are not required to be licensed under the Ubuntu Font Licence.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Documentation fonts
Thanks! As Wolftune said: Free Software does not conflict with trademarks. This is Free. Naming rights are NOT an essential freedom, period. What I get is that it's trademarked but that doesn't affect my 4 fundamental freedoms. Thanks for the threat! It helps! :D Now I can use it freely! :D
Re: [Trisquel-users] Documentation fonts
Nonetheless: Canonical, you are including proprietary software in Ubuntu's kernel and expressly promoting it in some of your distribution channels. With this, you are telling your users that you care more about convenience than their freedom. How can you even claim to be open source in this way? Now, when someone tells you you are subjecting your users to a license that could take their freedom away at any moment, you do NOTHING for months on end. The Ubuntu typeface is a beautiful font, but freedom comes before beauty. Source: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-licence/+bug/1167425?comments=all
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You don't understand. For the freedoms of free software to be real, they must be immutable unless you do something wrong. The trouble comes in clauses 2c) and the lack of grant of trademark rights. Say you want to make trivial changes to the font. Then you have to rename it to Ubuntu derivative [something]. But Canonical's trademark policies do not allow you to use such a font for commercial use, an important freedom of free software. Depending on the trademark, any number of other freedoms can be taken away. Even if it isn't trademarked, the font name may still become a trademark at any time, meaning your fundamental freedoms may be taken away at any time, meaning the license is non-free.
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Oh, got it! So, I guess beautiful but harmful... :/ You're really into this stuff as I see! ;) Is there a better option like this font? What font would you recommend?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Documentation fonts
Finding a similar typeface is difficult in this case. Ubuntu is a pioneering typeface like Times or Courier, and there isn't much like it. As an alternative, I recommend either PT Sans (available from Google dot com slash fonts, to which I can't link because they also recommend proprietary fonts) or QU Sans, which I've attached (http://trisquel.info/files/QU_Sans.tar__0.gz). The trouble with PT Sans is that the capital Q's descender isn't attached to the letter, which greatly annoys me. So I modified the font to use the Q from PT Mono, and now it looks perfect! (And it's only because of free software that I'm allowed to do stuff like this.)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Documentation fonts
It's a sans font, and you're right it is really nice to look at. Is it the official Ubuntu font? Wikipedia says that the Ubuntu font license is copyleft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28typeface%29#Ubuntu_Font_Licence
Re: [Trisquel-users] Documentation fonts
Serif fonts are said to be more legible on paper while Sans Serif is for any type of screen. If the documentation is to be online online only, then maybe keeping it at a Sans font is better. Even if a person prints the docs on paper, it doesn't make the Sans font automatically unreadable.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Documentation fonts
One thing I can assure, which is that, you can feel more comfortable reading some sort of fonts. And perhaps that can make you feel like you desire to read more, and you increase you overall performance XD at reading. Like some sort of placebo effect. It happens to me with this font, and I wonder if you can tell me what font it is and if it is free (I mean, as in freedom) http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/web-forums I truly feel comfortable reading that sort of font, perhaps, it's just a placebo...XD
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I already found it! XD
[Trisquel-users] Documentation fonts
I read somewhere that serif fonts are easier to read than sans serif fonts. Wikipedia says so as well, but it also says that studies have been inconclusive. What do you guys think? If Serif is probably easier to read, should we change the Documentation's body text to a serif font? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serif#cite_note-6
Re: [Trisquel-users] Documentation fonts
It depends if the text is on screen (72 DPI) or on paper.
