Re: [GNU-linux-libre] updates on nonfsg page

[Karl Goetz]

On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:15:37 GMT
address@hidden (Karl Berry) wrote:

>     [6] is about the fonts lucida, but there are no references. could
>     someone provide them please?
> 
> I think I'm the one who added that entry.  I have no references to
> give you off the top of my head (maybe this email message :) beyond

ok, added.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxi_(fonts), but the non-free-ness of
> Lucida is a fact.  I talk with Chuck Bigelow a lot, and no legally
> distributed Lucida fonts have ever permitted modification by anyone.
> 
> I'm sure this restriction was reflected in the actual documents
> accompanying B&H's donation of luximono (et al.) bitmaps to the X
> consortium decades ago, but perhaps it got lost somewhere along the
> line since then, I can't say.

So i'm clear - lucida is a group of fonts available in xorg, which are
non-free?
kk

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