[okfn-discuss] okfn-discuss Digest, Vol 25, Issue 11

Fri Oct 19 12:01:34 UTC 2007

On 10/19/07, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> Looking through it I
> was fascinated that bitstream had released Vera Sans for use by GNOME
> but require that "The fonts cannot be packaged by themselves for sale,
> but can be sold with any software."
>
> <http://www.bitstream.com/font_rendering/products/dev_fonts/vera.html>

The commercial font people are terrified of their fonts being sold
stand-alone. It is a little bizarre. RH has done slightly better with
their new font license, but it still isn't in great shape.

Luis