[Savannah-hackers] Re: [Savannah] freefont want to be a GNU package

[Free Software Foundation]

Please add this software to the GNU Evaluations list, and acknowledge
back to this address when it has been added.

Please note the following in the entry:

      * bkuhn checked to make sure the maintainer, Primoz Peterlin
        <address@hidden>, agreed to GNU policy.

      * Primoz originally got in touch with us via registering on savannah,
        requesting us to make it a GNU program.


Description:

> Free UCS Outline Fonts project aims to provide a set of free outline fonts
> covering the ISO 10646/Unicode Universal Character Set (UCS). With Unicode
> 3.1, this amounts to the monumental number of 94,140 encoded characters,
> so the task will be approached in smaller steps, covering progressively
> larger number of characters. Right now, OpenType appears to be the
> technology we will use, but should this change in the future, the glyph
> shapes should be able to be converted to other outline formats.
>
> The principal motivation was to prevent sliding of free software users
> from the use of free X Window System bitmap fonts to proprietary Truetype
> fonts, as with the advance of high-quality free TrueType renderer
> <http://www.freetype.org/>, the scalable outline fonts become a much more
> appealing alternative for free software users. A usable free outline font
> editor <http://pfaedit.sourceforge.net/> and the existance of free outline
> fonts scattered around, including the URW++ release of core 35 PostScript
> fonts under the terms of GNU GPL, seems a solid base to start with.

URL:

> <http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/>.

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