fonts September 2008

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Re: contact kurditgroup
by Michal Nowak 13 Oct '08

13 Oct '08

ping? On 09:57 Wed 16 Jul , Michal Nowak wrote: > Hi Bardaqani, > > sorry for not being clear on this for the first time. > > The problem with GPL licensed font is that when you for example > create PDF file (like a book) the you usually embed the font inside > the document and then is anyone able to see it correct even > when he does not have the Kurdish font in system (really good thing). > > But: When you have used GPL font (like Unikurd Web) inside PDF file > then you must license the file/book as a GPL too! And that's the > problem. > > Because of this there's special Font Exception which solves that > problem. > > What would help us a lot: > > 1. Re-license the fonts from 'GPLv3' to 'GPLv3 + exception'. > Here's the link to such text: > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException > > 2. Write the text from the above link to the file gpl.txt inside > unikurdweb.zip file. > > > Solving points 1. and 2. will help us to distribute Your font in > Fedora and thus helpfull for Kurdish writing/speaking users in > general. > > Don't hesitate and write me in case of another questions or if > you need any further guidance. > > Thank you, > Michal > > > On 23:43 Tue 15 Jul , bardaqani bardaqani wrote: > > Dear Michal, > > How can help you? should we out the license inside a PDF or what? > > let me know > > > > cheers > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:47 AM, <mnowak(a)redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > <div dir='rtl' style='direction: rtl; text-align: right' align='right'>.Hi, > > > I wish I package some Unikurd fonts to Fedora Linux distribution > > > > > > The problem is actually the chosen license, which is plain GPLv3. Here you > > > can read why is the license not so well usable for usage e.g. inside PDF. > > > > > > > > > http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException > > > > > > Please reply to my email mnowak(a)redhat.com for further information or > > > point me to someone whom can I talk to. > > > > > > Thank you for you time, > > > Michal Nowak > > > > > > Michal Nowak   uid:0 > > > > > > 2008-07-15 > > > </div> > > >

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can't git-clone liberation-fonts
by Denis Jacquerye 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

The command "git-clone http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/liberation-fonts.git" gives the following warning and leaves an empty liberation-fonts directory warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout. Cheers, Denis Moyogo Jacquerye

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help : newbie packager
by ankur sinha 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

hi,I'm a newbie packager.. I was trying to package this font. http://www.tulrich.com/fonts/ The upstream tarball has otfs, ttfs and also sfd source. I enquired at #fedora on the IRC and was advised to not use the ttf/otfs but build from the sfd files. I dont know how to do this.. can anyone please help?? an example spec file with explanations would be great..regards,Ankur Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now, on http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html/

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Fwd: Gnu FreeFont -- new release
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen 14 Sep '08

14 Sep '08

I am not really familiar with this font, but since it covers quite a number of scripts it looks interesting at least, so forwarding for any comments? Would it be useful to include in Fedora? Jens

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[announcement] fedora-i18n-bugs list
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

A new bugs mailing-list fedora-i18n-bugs has been setup to track Fedora i18n related bugs in bugzilla. It will also be used for autocc'ing (initialcc) of i18n related Fedora packages. https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-i18n-bugs The list will be fairly high traffic but give people a way to track i18n issues also in the archives or in bugzilla. Thanks, Jens

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Fedora fonts SIG pre-freeze status
by Nicolas Mailhot 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

Hi all, I've updated our status page http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fonts_inclusion_history While we've still not quite reached the F9 addition volume, things are starting to look not too bad. It would be nice to reach the 40 new packages mark by F10 release time. This page is intended to be referenced in release notes, so each new font needs to be described properly. Right now: — icelandic fonts and smc fonts have no wiki page — darkgarden, sportrop and thibault fonts have unfinished pages ⇒ please fix Additionnaly the plan is still to bump fontforge to the latest version just before next week's freeze (and rebuild dependant fonts). Please make sure your packages are ready for rebuild by then. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot

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new fontforge in rawhide, please rebuild fonts
by Kevin Fenzi 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

Greetings. I just built a new version of fontforge in rawhide. Could all maintainers that have packages that BuildRequires: fontforge do a bump and rebuild against the new version? This would be (at least): dejavu-fonts wine linux-libertine-fonts edrip-fonts thibault-fonts thaifonts-scalable darkgarden-fonts inconsolata-fonts Please let me know if you spot any problems with it... kevin

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Does anyone know of any remaining users of the Type1 fonts?
by Jim Gettys 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

Last I knew, all they would do (on the screen) was make for an ugly screen, as we haven't had a decent Type-1 font renderer.... Anyone have any knowledge of anything current that uses type-1 on the screen? On paper? - Jim -- Jim Gettys <jg(a)laptop.org> One Laptop Per Child

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Font subsetting is patented?
by Vasile Gaburici 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

Seems to me this way: http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6252671/description.html But IANAL...

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Re: Very nice of you to write the tl2rpm converter
by Nicolas Mailhot 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

Le lundi 01 septembre 2008 à 19:39 +0200, Jindrich Novy a écrit : > This looks like an optimal granularity for it since collections > contain largest possible TeX Live bits that don't yet conflicts. But > the review process for 400 generated specs quite scares me. Just start by splitting out all the stuff useful to non-TEX users (ie fonts) and you'll find reviewers and possibly co-maintainers. I'd rather review a score of simple packages that follow standard templates than the horror the current mashup is. -- Nicolas Mailhot

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