Crashes on lack of times.ttf (bug 9623) and using Liberation Serif instead

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Mon Mar 2 12:48:24 CST 2009


2009/3/2 Remco <remco47 at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:06 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

>> The only problem I can see is that the Liberation fonts are GPL (plus
>> font). Would including the font with the Wine download be possible
>> without making Wine entirely GPL?

> Yes, I would think that that constitutes mere aggregation, which is
> allowed by the GPL and the LGPL.


Of course, there are other possible metric-compatible fonts under GPL,
e.g. Linux Libertine http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/ which
looks more like Times than Liberation Serif does. But then we're
getting into matters of taste :-)


- d.



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