Re: ANN: back-art resources 0.1.1

[Adam Fedor]

On Sunday, July 13, 2003, at 06:15 PM, Alexander Malmberg wrote:

> MJ Ray wrote:
> > Adam Fedor <fedor@doc.com> wrote:
> > > We could put it in core, but perhaps rename it to something like
> > > BackResources or SystemResources to make it more general
> >
> > Could we?  The Vera fonts say:
> > FontCopyright = "Copyright (c) 2003 by Bitstream, Inc. All Rights 
> > Reserved.
> > Bitstream Vera is a trademark of Bitstream, Inc.";
> >
> > Is that wrong?  There is no COPYING or similar file for them.
>
> That's just the short copyright notice, copied from the font file. The
> license itself is also in the font file. Extracting it cleanly is a bit
> tricky, but supposedly, pfaedit can do it. Just opening the file in a
> text editor also works, or you can read it here:
>
> http://www.gnome.org/fonts/#Final_Bitstream_Vera_Fonts
>
> Redistributing them is no problem, but I don't know what the FSF/GNU
> thinks of the license.

It seems GPL compatible (I imagine it would have to be it gnome is 
using at).