Fonts, was Re: [License]...
Lex Spoon
lex at cc.gatech.edu
Mon Feb 11 05:30:03 UTC 2002
> Part of the understanding with Doug was that they be distributed only
> when included with an image, not separately, and that notice about the
> origin of the fonts be included in an appropriate place, like a comment
> but preferably in the WtS window, and that they be nontrivial to extract
> and converted back to their original form. The primary reason was that
> he also sells the Windows versions of these fonts in some form and
> doesn't want someone competing with his own fonts.
This is better than an Apple-restricted font, but why don't we try for a
*really* free font? Surely there are some around, e.g. whatever Debian
uses for XWindows.
Note that it really is going to be easy to extract a font from a Squeak
image -- Squeak is an interactive programming system, and it's
*designed* to make this kind of thing easy. It would be really
irritating not to have #exportOnFileNamed:, just because of licensing.
-Lex
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