Cisco Cisco IPICS Release 2.1 Información de licencia

 

  6. If I have improvements for Bitstream Vera, is it possible they might get

      adopted in future versions?

 

     Yes. The contract between the Gnome Foundation and Bitstream has

     provisions for working with Bitstream to ensure quality additions to

     the Bitstream Vera font family. Please contact us if you have such

     additions. Note, that in general, we will want such additions for the

     entire family, not just a single font, and that you'll have to keep

     both Gnome and Jim Lyles, Vera's designer, happy! To make sense to add

     glyphs to the font, they must be stylistically in keeping with Vera's

     design. Vera cannot become a "ransom note" font. Jim Lyles will be

     providing a document describing the design elements used in Vera, as a

     guide and aid for people interested in contributing to Vera.

 

  7. I want to sell a software package that uses these fonts: Can I do so?

 

     Sure. Bundle the fonts with your software and sell your software

     with the fonts. That is the intent of the copyright.

 

  8. If applications have built the names "Bitstream Vera" into them,

     can I override this somehow to use fonts of my choosing?

 

     This depends on exact details of the software. Most open source

     systems and software (e.g., Gnome, KDE, etc.) are now converting to

     use fontconfig (see www.fontconfig.org) to handle font configuration,

     selection and substitution; it has provisions for overriding font

     names and subsituting alternatives. An example is provided by the

     supplied local.conf file, which chooses the family Bitstream Vera for

     "sans", "serif" and "monospace".  Other software (e.g., the XFree86

     core server) has other mechanisms for font substitution.

 

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