On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:31 +0300, Vasile Gaburici wrote:
I recall watching a Barbara Beeton's TUG talk recording that
some
people didn't like the STIX font license, and were waiting for the
GUST Math font. Does anyone know what exactly the problems are? I see
(
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal_considerations_for_fonts#preferred-li...)
that Fedora considers the STIX license okay...
Though we obviously disagree with Debian on the meaning of the original
STIX license (Debians arguments were most unconvincing), we do agree
it's a badly worded license (writers of new junk font licenses should be
shot, I'm thinking about you GUST and you Liberation lawyers).
Fortunately upstream has promised OFL-ing "soon" ("soon" in STIX
speak
is not the on timescale you're used to, STIX happens in a strange
slow-motion plane)
--
Nicolas Mailhot