On 4/14/06, Mike McCormack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The FontForge author has indicated that he will give permission to
license sfd2ttf based on FontForge code as LGPL.
The task is to take some of the FontForge code, turn it into a sfd2ttf
and make it acceptable for inclusion into Wine.
So,
Mike McCormack wrote:
As I'm busy with my day job at the moment, we're only missing somebody
to write it. Any volunteers?
I'd be happy to volunteer, but..
1.) I haven't got the knowhow (I don't even know what an sfd file is) :-).
2.) Seems like slight overkill, considering that the user can
On 4/13/06, Molle Bestefich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2.) Seems like slight overkill, considering that the user can justinstall FontForge.What is wrong with the simpler solution you mentioned: * put a warning about this in configure
This issue that we can really do decent font support with our
On 4/14/06, Brian Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This issue that we can really do decent font support with our fonts and not
building them creates problems. So it'd be really nice to have the fonts
available rather than just warn someone they won't be. Sure, installing
fontforge isn't
On 4/13/06, n0dalus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe this is a stupid question, but why can't we just distribute thettf files directly?Because we're masochists and prefer to build tools.It's definitely the simple solution and we're capable of doing that. There used to be issues with having binary
Brian Vincent wrote:
2.) Seems like slight overkill, considering that the user can just
install FontForge.
What is wrong with the simpler solution you mentioned:
* put a warning about this in configure
This issue that we can really do decent font support with our fonts and not
On 4/13/06, Molle Bestefich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, thank you for that explanation.And I guess that the FontForge license prohibits using pieces of codefrom there, right?Actually, as the first email read, the author of FontForge is happy to let us use his code. So all we really need is
On 4/13/06, Molle Bestefich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, thank you for that explanation.And I guess that the FontForge license prohibits using pieces of codefrom there, right?Nope - read Mike's earlier email. George Williams agreed to relicense the necessary bits under LGPL.
-Brian
On 4/13/06, Tom Spear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 4/13/06, Molle Bestefich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, thank you for that explanation.And I guess that the FontForge license prohibits using pieces of codefrom there, right?Actually, as the first email read, the author of FontForge is happy to let
Molle Bestefich wrote:
2.) Seems like slight overkill, considering that the user can just
install FontForge.
Eliminating dependencies[1] is a Good Thing (tm). It makes it easier
for people to install and use our software.
We're also discovered that not all versions of FontForge are
Hi,
Wine's build time dependency on FontForge is causing a bit of a problem,
as can be seen by browsing the wine-devel archives for the last month.
I propose that a small sfd2ttf utility be written and used instead of
FontForge to eliminate the dependency, and make everybody a little
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