It would be very good to have a ecofont alternate version for each font, is that possible to do? For libreoffice 3.5 it is possible to have at lest one of these fonts? In their website they have a paid program that has more fonts.
On 06/12/2011, Simos Xenitellis <simos.li...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Robinson Tryon > <bishop.robin...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 4:55 PM, 810d4rk <810d...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi, may I ask if it is possible to include ecofont >> > (www.ecofont.com/assets/files/ecofont_vera_sans_regular.zip) in >> > libreoffice? >> > >> >> Hi, >> Thank you for your suggestion. Do you have further information about >> the licensing of that font? >> >> The only external information about "ecofont" licensing that I could >> dig up is here at debian: >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=509594 >> >> I looked at the EcoFont FAQ, but most of their licensing information >> seems to be for per-site or per-seat arrangements: >> http://www.ecofont.com/en/help/ecofont/faq/0022.html >> >> For LibreOffice to consider the inclusion of a font, it will need to >> be available under terms compatible with the project's licensing: >> http://www.libreoffice.org/download/license/ >> >> The EcoFont toner-saving concept is pretty nifty. If the licensing can >> be straightened-out, it's definitely worth considering for inclusion. >> >> > Their font is based on Bitstream Vera, > http://www-old.gnome.org/fonts/ > which has full information + FAQ about licensing. > > You can ask them if they are happy to have Ecofont bundled with LibreOffice. > If they are not happy, then we have the right to get the font and rename to > something else (per license). > > My only concern with this is the glyph coverage. The old Bitstream Vera > font covered partially the basic Latin > Unicode blocks. Due to this, the DejaVu project took Bitstream Vera and > added full Latin, Cyrillic and Greek, and many more Unicode blocks (see > http://www.unicode.org/charts and http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page ). > > Simos > -- Thanks _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
