Re: xft and xfree86-truetype-fonts

2002-08-17 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Does anyone know if there has ever been attempt to have Bigelow and Holmes licensing changed so that it fits dfsg? Yes, both by me and Branden. What was the result of your attempts? Did they reject the idea? I'm CC-ing this to Charles Bigelow in case I misrepresent something. As usual,

Re: xft and xfree86-truetype-fonts

2002-08-15 Thread Michael Cardenas
I wonder if Bigelow and Holmes would allow modification of their fonts with a clause that the name must be changed. Does anyone know if there has ever been attempt to have Bigelow and Holmes licensing changed so that it fits dfsg? OTOH, does the inclusion of these two truetype fonts really make

Re: xft and xfree86-truetype-fonts

2002-08-15 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
I wonder if Bigelow and Holmes would allow modification of their fonts with a clause that the name must be changed. I doubt it. If you do contact them on this matter, please make it very clear that you are not speaking for XFree86, who are happy with the current license. (This is the official

Re: xft and xfree86-truetype-fonts

2002-08-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 11:02:07AM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote: What was the result of your attempts? Did they reject the idea? They never replied to my message. -- G. Branden Robinson|Men use thought only to justify Debian GNU/Linux |their wrong

Re: xft and xfree86-truetype-fonts

2002-08-09 Thread Anthony Fok
Hi all, On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 10:27:22PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 04:59:52PM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote: The new redhat beta, limbo, uses xft and a package called xfree86-truetype-fonts for displaying schweet looking fonts. These packages are not

Re: xft and xfree86-truetype-fonts

2002-08-09 Thread Juergen Kreileder
Michael Cardenas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The new redhat beta, limbo, uses xft and a package called xfree86-truetype-fonts for displaying schweet looking fonts. These packages are not included in the 4.2.0 series of debs. Do they just have different names? Is there some reason we don't

Re: xft and xfree86-truetype-fonts

2002-08-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 12:00:31PM +0800, Anthony Fok wrote: According to www.rpmfind.net, Red Hat's XFree86-truetype-fonts package contains: [...] i.e. XFree86-truetype-fonts in Red Hat corresponds to the xfonts-scalable-nonfree package in Debian. :-) Ah, so all Michael had to do was

Re: xft and xfree86-truetype-fonts

2002-08-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 06:08:56AM +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote: The TrueType fonts from xfree86-truetype-fonts[1] are in xfree86-nonfree-truetype[2]. xft[3] contains the new Xft stuff from http://keithp.com/fonts/, AFAIK it's not available in a Debian package yet. Ah, that stuff. I've

Re: xft and xfree86-truetype-fonts

2002-08-09 Thread Michael Cardenas
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 11:17:07PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 06:08:56AM +0200, Juergen Kreileder wrote: The TrueType fonts from xfree86-truetype-fonts[1] are in xfree86-nonfree-truetype[2]. xft[3] contains the new Xft stuff from http://keithp.com/fonts/, AFAIK

Re: xft and xfree86-truetype-fonts

2002-08-09 Thread Anthony Fok
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 10:28:11PM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote: I'd rather wait until Keith has given some indication that the code is stable before I'd even want to consider patching up to it. Most likely, the best approach is just to get it with the rest of 4.3.0 when that is

Re: xft and xfree86-truetype-fonts

2002-08-09 Thread ISHIKAWA Mutsumi
Hi, In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been watching Keith's commit messages with great interest. It does look like cool stuff but he's still chasing the bugs out of it. It's cool stuff, I think so too. I'd rather wait until Keith has given some

xft and xfree86-truetype-fonts

2002-08-08 Thread Michael Cardenas
The new redhat beta, limbo, uses xft and a package called xfree86-truetype-fonts for displaying schweet looking fonts. These packages are not included in the 4.2.0 series of debs. Do they just have different names? Is there some reason we don't include them? thanks michael -- michael

Re: xft and xfree86-truetype-fonts

2002-08-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 04:59:52PM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote: The new redhat beta, limbo, uses xft and a package called xfree86-truetype-fonts for displaying schweet looking fonts. These packages are not included in the 4.2.0 series of debs. Do they just have different names? Is there