Re: [Libreoffice] ecofont

It would be very good to have a ecofont alternate version for each
font, is that possible to do? For libreoffice 3.5 it is possible to
have at lest one of these fonts?
In their website they have a paid program that has more fonts.

On 06/12/2011, Simos Xenitellis <simos.lists@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Robinson Tryon
> <bishop.robinson@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 4:55 PM, 810d4rk <810d4rk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi, may I ask if it is possible to include ecofont
> > > (www.ecofont.com/assets/files/ecofont_vera_sans_regular.zip) in
> > > libreoffice?
> >
> > Hi,
> > Thank you for your suggestion. Do you have further information about
> > the licensing of that font?
> >
> > The only external information about "ecofont" licensing that I could
> > dig up is here at debian:
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=509594
> >
> > I looked at the EcoFont FAQ, but most of their licensing information
> > seems to be for per-site or per-seat arrangements:
> > http://www.ecofont.com/en/help/ecofont/faq/0022.html
> >
> > For LibreOffice to consider the inclusion of a font, it will need to
> > be available under terms compatible with the project's licensing:
> > http://www.libreoffice.org/download/license/
> >
> > The EcoFont toner-saving concept is pretty nifty. If the licensing can
> > be straightened-out, it's definitely worth considering for inclusion.
> Their font is based on Bitstream Vera,
> http://www-old.gnome.org/fonts/
> which has full information + FAQ about licensing.
>
> You can ask them if they are happy to have Ecofont bundled with LibreOffice.
> If they are not happy, then we have the right to get the font and rename to
> something else (per license).
>
> My only concern with this is the glyph coverage. The old Bitstream Vera
> font covered partially the basic Latin
> Unicode blocks. Due to this, the DejaVu project took Bitstream Vera and
> added full Latin, Cyrillic and Greek, and many more Unicode blocks (see
> http://www.unicode.org/charts and http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page ).
>
> Simos


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