[KLUG Members] Redhat releases new GPL fonts

Michael Rudas mpr_linux-01 at yahoo.com
Fri May 11 16:37:11 EDT 2007


I found this on another list (Marcel Gagne's
WFTL-LUG).  Thanks, Marcelino Mata!

RedHat contracted a company to create fonts under the
GPL and is releasing them to all.

"You are free to use these fonts on any system you
would like.  You are free to redistribute them under
the GPL+ exception license found in the download. 
Using these fonts does not subject your documents to
the GPL, it liberates them from any proprietary claim.
 Once you have installed these fonts, I encourage you
to make them your default in Thunderbird, Firefox, and
OpenOffice.org.  Heck, for that matter make them your
default in Microsoft Office, in Microsoft Windows, in
Apple OSX, in anything you would like.  In many
applications you can set Times New Roman, Arial and
Courier New to convert to these fonts."

<http://www.press.redhat.com/2007/05/09/liberation-fonts>

Another list member posted this useful tutorial link
(from Malta!):

http://www.linux.org.mt/article/ttfonts

There are other such tutorials out there, of course. 
Cool news!

-- Mikey





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