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).
                            - Jim

> From: Bert Freudenberg <bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 12:23:24 +0200
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Cc: <diegogomezdeck at consultar.com>, Jim.Gettys at hp.com
> Subject: Re: Bitstream Vera Fonts
> -----
> Am Dienstag, 24.06.03 um 11:08 Uhr schrieb
> <diegogomezdeck at consultar.com>:
> >> but there are high-quality
> >> TTF fonts (Bitstram Vera) available at: http://www.gnome.org/fonts/ (I
> >> havn't yet tried to use those with Squeak, though)
> >
> > These fonts looks nice!
> >
> > I try to load them and some doesn't load saying "unknown sub familiy
> > name.
> > This font will be skipped"
> >
> > Question for the licenses gurus: Can these fonts be distributed with
> > Squeak?
>
> As long as they remain unmodified, yes, otherwise we just have to
> rename them. Jim Gettys himself advocated this, sort of :-)
>
> -- Bert

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Jim Gettys
Cambridge Research Laboratory
HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Company
Jim.Gettys at hp.com