Re: A11y woes

[Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net>]

O/H Clytie Siddall έγραψε:
> On 20/02/2006, at 10:14 PM, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
>
> > > It's a pity about Bitstream (Titus Cyberbit Basic): they must have 
> > > changed their licence. I read their licence attached to another font 
> > > only this week, but it must have been out of date, because it said 
> > > we were free to redistribute their fonts as long as we didn't do so 
> > > in a font package and charge for that package. Re-engineering was 
> > > fine as long as the name of the font was changed.
> > Hi Clytie,
> > There are different licenses per font;
> > 1. Bitstream Vera (http://www.gnome.org/fonts/) is an open-source 
> > font and thanks to that we have DejaVu which I believe has proper 
> > coverage for Vietnamese as well. You may try the latest version, 
> > published yesterday, from *dejavu*.sourceforge.net/
>
> Grabbing it now... ;)
>
> > 2. Titus Cyberbit Basic has a "for-personal-use-only" license, which 
> > I believe it comes from long time ago when the german institute 
> > arranged with Bitstream to work on the font and the greater coverage 
> > of glyphs. I believe that if someone contacted Bitstream, they would 
> > not mind to change the license to that of Bitstream Vera. I believe 
> > it's an issue of contacting the right people.
> > 3. Other fonts from Bitstream are proprietary.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
>
> Thanks, Simos, that is helpful. Do you think it's worth us trying to 
> contact Bitstream? Or shall we go with dejavu (which is, confusingly, 
> also the name of my backup program)?
AFAIK, the person that worked with Bitstream (the company) to have 
Bitstream Vera (the font) released for the GNOME foundation was Jim 
Gettys. In this respect, it would be good to send him first an e-mail 
describing how useful you find Titus Cyberbit Basic. You can find his 
e-mail by way of Google.

However, the most important step you can do now is to contact the author 
of Verajja, a font font derived from Bitstream Vera that suppors 
(perhaps reimplements) Vietnamese. See at the end of the page, 
http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Bitstream_Vera_derivatives
The people from DejaVu, the main derivative of Bitstream Vera, are 
trying to contact him so that the glyphs can enter back into DejaVu and 
have a single font for all uses.

Simos