Liberation Fonts free from Red Hat

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Liberation Fonts free from Red Hat

Postby Antony » Fri 20 Jul, 2007 9:46 am

Red Hat contracted Ascender Corp to develop Liberation Fonts which have same metrically equivalent to major (popular) used proprietary fonts. Those fonts solve the problem of license issue in open source.

Under the terms of that development agreement, Ascender retains rights in the fonts and can provide them under a traditional proprietary license to those who require such a license, e.g. printers that have fonts embedded in their firmware, but Red Hat receives a license that permits us to sublicense the fonts at no cost under the GPL+font exception.


    Liberation Fonts have three sets:
  • Liberation Sans
    similar to Helvetica, Arial, Albany, Nimbus Sans L, and Bitstream Vera Sans
  • Liberation Serif
    similar to Times, Times New Roman, Thorndale, Nimbus Roman, and Bitstream Vera
  • Liberation Mono
    similar to Courier, Courier New, Cumberland, Courier, Nimbus Mono L, and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.


Those fonts are available and can be downloaded in http://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/ and they are under GPL license except font embedding.
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