On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 Jim.Gettys@hp.com wrote:
> Nils,
>
> The Luxi fonts are freely redistributable, so long as they are not modified;
> the fonts are from Chuck Bigelow; the license itself is in the X distribution
> at xc/fonts/scaled/TTF/COPYRIGHT.BH.
Sounds pretty reasonable...
> The issue with them is that they are not well hinted, and therefore won't
> image nicely at low resolution. Getting fonts hinted for screen usage
> costs about $10 U.S. per glyph; needless to say, this gets expensive,
> quickly; the Luxi fonts were converted to ttf but not manually hinted,
> and therefore won't do very well at the resolutions we use.
>
> I also checked with our lawyer here, and given that we do not charge
> for familiar/gpe, he says we're on sound footing to continue to redistribute
> the Microsoft screen fonts, as the Microsoft license permits redistribution
> in that case.
>
> I'm trying to wrap up a deal right now for another set of well hinted
> fonts that won't have any strings attached. When I can say more, I will;
> I hope this will be sometime in the next month or so.
That'll be great - thanks for putting the effort in!
> - Jim
>
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> Jim Gettys
> Cambridge Research Laboratory
> HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Company
> Jim.Gettys@hp.com
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