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Bitstream To Donate 10 Fonts To Free Software World

Posted by timothy on from the some-gnus-is-good-gnus dept.

21mhz writes "Posted on FootNotes: The GNOME Foundation and Bitstream Inc. announce long-term agreement to bring high quality fonts to Free Software. Ten fonts will be released for use under a special open license agreement, giving advanced font capabilities to all free and open source software developers and users. Read the full press release for more details." Modification and re-release (under a different name) is explicitly allowed, too.

4 of 397 comments (clear)

  1. FP!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    Fonts? FONTS!!!!?? We don't need no stinkin' FONTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  2. What I don't understand. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why only for Gnome ?
    KDE is a much better and more advanced window manager, so it should have these nice fonts, too.
    So why not ?
    Do they fear the wrath of Microsoft ?

  3. Alright! by fernd1 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Now I don't have to blatantly disregard Microsoft's EULA by copying True Type fonts over to Linux anymore. Finally distros will be crisp and clear on first install!

  4. FINALLY! by greygent · · Score: -1, Troll

    Thank God! These 10 fonts were the last thing holding me from adopting Linux on the workstation. Now my soul can be saved!

    Thank you, Richard Stallman, thank you!