Should we expect Liberation fonts to be installed?

[Austin English]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Juan Lang <juan.lang at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Along those lines, the hard drive space is cheap on this one.  Seems
>>> like Wine packagers could just include the fonts and install them
>>> locally in c:\windows\fonts.
>>
>> The Liberation fonts are GPL licensed, Wine is LGPL.
>
> Is there a meaningful difference in the two licenses for fonts?  LGPL
> is necessary for code, which gets loaded at runtime to a closed-source
> executable, but fonts contain no code, and thus aren't loaded.

A good point, but I'm not qualified to answer that. I suspect that the
SFC would be able to answer it, if it's a serious consideration.

FWIW, a couple links:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#Fonts

and the actual license:
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=liberation-fonts.git;a=blob_plain;f=source/License.txt

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-Austin