On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Juan Lang <juan.l...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Along those lines, the hard drive space is cheap on this one. Seems >>> like Wine packagers could just include the fonts and install them >>> locally in c:\windows\fonts. >> >> The Liberation fonts are GPL licensed, Wine is LGPL. > > Is there a meaningful difference in the two licenses for fonts? LGPL > is necessary for code, which gets loaded at runtime to a closed-source > executable, but fonts contain no code, and thus aren't loaded.
A good point, but I'm not qualified to answer that. I suspect that the SFC would be able to answer it, if it's a serious consideration. FWIW, a couple links: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#Fonts and the actual license: http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=liberation-fonts.git;a=blob_plain;f=source/License.txt -- -Austin
