| Gnome teams with Bitstream to provide freely available fonts |
Jan. 22, 2003
(PRexcerpt) -- In a move to fill the last remaining gap in font display capabilities for open source software, the GNOME Foundation has reached an agreement with Bitstream to release fonts under an open source
license.
A total of ten serif, sans serif and monospaced fonts will be released under a special open source license, after they have been adapted to meet the requirements for technical use. The set of ten fonts will bring advanced font capabilities to all developers and users of free and open source software.
"The donation of these fonts to the free software community is the final piece that will give full functionality to projects like Freetype, XFT2 and X
Render extensions of the XFree86 project, Pango, KDE and Trolltechs QT, among many others." said Jim Gettys of HP and GNOME Foundation board member. "These fonts will be available to all developers and users, giving GNOME and other open source programs a great look right out of the box that has been lacking until now."
The Bitstream Vera fonts will be freely available for copying and redistribution and can be modified as long as the font name is changed. The fonts cannot be packaged by themselves for sale, but can be sold with any software. The GNOME Foundation will incorporate the fonts into future GNOME releases, giving end users of all levels, as well as GNOME developers, the advanced display capabilities they offer.
"GNOME was created to give free software users a friendly, powerful desktop environment," said Miguel de Icaza, GNOME Foundation president and CTO of Ximian, Inc. "This agreement with Bitstream will enhance the experience and graphics capabilities of corporate, enterprise, educational, governmental and individual GNOME users and will give powerful tools to open source developers everywhere."
"Bitstream's generous donation is a tangible measure of the importance and growth of open source," said Russ Nelson, VP of the Open Source Initiative. "I praise the GNOME Foundations efforts to bring this agreement into being."
The agreement between Bitstream and the GNOME Foundation will bring invaluable tools to open source developers and users worldwide.
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