contributing new font package for xorg (fwd)

Soeren Sandmann sandmann at daimi.au.dk
Fri Aug 12 16:00:24 PDT 2005


Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> You think an end user understands such things. Certainly with a vendor
> hat on it would be the kind of thing to run through the legal department
> and expect to patch out simply because its not fair on, nor possibly for
> end users to grasp the legal mess that GPL fonts are and the problems
> they could get into.

Note that with the modularization fonts will be separated by license
so it is really easy for a vendor to pick whatever fonts it want.

Soren



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