Bitstream Vera Fonts

Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus schwa at cc.gatech.edu
Tue Jun 24 12:12:55 UTC 2003


On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 03:50:05AM -0700, Jim.Gettys at hp.com wrote:
> Yes, you can redistribute Vera freely.
> 
> If you modify them, please let us know.  The license requires you change
> their name if you do so; but similarly, we have a contract with Bitstream
> to get changes upstream to the fonts (so long as the quality is maintained).
> They (and us, the Gnome foundation) must approve any changes to the fonts if
> they retain the Bitstream name.
> 
> I don't understand the message you are getting....  This hasn't been true
> to my knowledge from anyone else using the fonts (at this point, they
> are in widespread use, both using Xft rendering technology and other
> rendering technology (e.g. OpenOffice, which uses Freetype, but not the
> other stuff that Xft does).

I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with the Vera fonts.  I've encountered
the same message with other fonts I downloads, as well as (IIRC) with
Windows system ttf fonts.

Joshua

>                             - Jim



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