Hi All,
Liberation is very special fonts in opensource world. It has served
open source communities for more that 7 years. It has got an excellent user
base.
We released liberation 2.0 two years back. Though we reverted this
change in Fedora due to mismatch of hinting bytecode with liberation1.
Liberation 2 is actively used with Libreoffice for last 2+ years, since it
has got a better character coverage.
Recently i had conversation with Wikimedia developer Ryan Kaldari
where he mentioned "We evaluated numerous fonts and Liberation Sans had the
highest overall score of all the FOSS sans-serif fonts we evaluated."
There was an issues [1] with positioning of accent marks which we have
fixed. After it i believe Wikipedia is also now using Liberation fonts from
bug. [2]
For better collaboration for upcoming development of liberation 2, we
have now made it available on github. [3] Existing fedorahosted git will be
still there but i will mostly use it only for liberation 1.07 and
liberation 2.0 development will happen on github and i will just sync
fedorahosted git with github periodically.
Regards,
Pravin Satpute
1.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1072095
2.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1084228
3.
https://github.com/pravins/liberation-fonts
4. http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/liberation-fonts.git