Fonts
I've spent a lot of time thus far this weekend looking at various fonts and their licenses, in hopes that some could be included in an Art Studio Spin of Fedora. We're a bit thin on fonts included out-of-the-box, and I think for a lot of graphic designers having a nice variety of fonts to work with right away would be a plus.
With the help of Stephen Hartke's free fonts page, I came up with a list of fonts organized by license. Some fonts are already available in Fedora and many are not. These are the licenses I found in use for the free fonts out there (Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, I am just listing out the license information that I found based looking at the fonts and their documentation since this is pretty much the most important consideration when thinking about packaging something for Fedora):
See the full list of fonts by license and where to get them.
UPDATE: At the suggestion of an anonymous commenter, I went through the Open Font Library and found a couple additional Open Font License fonts as well as a bunch of Public Domain licenses. So the Open Font License list and preview have been updated with two additional fonts - Limberjack and Crassroots. Also, the number of public domain fonts grew so much that they've been split out from the 'misc' preview and now have a page of their own with all of the PD fonts from the Open Font Library.
UPDATE #2: Added Aurulent Sans to the OFL fonts. Added ttxt to the GPL with exception fonts. Added Verily to the Bitstream Vera licensed fonts. Added a new set of font previews for the Design Science License.
UPDATE #3: Added preview for the GUST Font License Licensed fonts. More updates to come as I sift through the super-helpful links people have been giving me! Keep 'em coming! :)
With the help of Stephen Hartke's free fonts page, I came up with a list of fonts organized by license. Some fonts are already available in Fedora and many are not. These are the licenses I found in use for the free fonts out there (Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, I am just listing out the license information that I found based looking at the fonts and their documentation since this is pretty much the most important consideration when thinking about packaging something for Fedora):
- Aladdin Free Public License - I think this is not compatible with Fedora since it appears to disallow for-profit distribution.
- GPL with Font Exception See what they look like.
- Open Font License See what they look like.
- Utopia License - for the Utopia font and its derivatives. See what they look like.
- GUST License - It seems to be related to the LaTeX license. See what they look like.
- X11 License - See what they look like.
- Bitstream Vera License - See what they look like.
- GPL - it seems the GPL without the font exception isn't a very good license for a font. So I don't know if these are kosher. Some of them, I'm not sure they have the exception or not but reading the text included with the fonts if there was any seemed to indicate 'no.'
- LaTeX License - See what they look like.
- Public Domain - See what they look like.
- Design Science License - I never even heard of this license before. See what they look like
- LGPL - See what they look like.
See the full list of fonts by license and where to get them.
UPDATE: At the suggestion of an anonymous commenter, I went through the Open Font Library and found a couple additional Open Font License fonts as well as a bunch of Public Domain licenses. So the Open Font License list and preview have been updated with two additional fonts - Limberjack and Crassroots. Also, the number of public domain fonts grew so much that they've been split out from the 'misc' preview and now have a page of their own with all of the PD fonts from the Open Font Library.
UPDATE #2: Added Aurulent Sans to the OFL fonts. Added ttxt to the GPL with exception fonts. Added Verily to the Bitstream Vera licensed fonts. Added a new set of font previews for the Design Science License.
UPDATE #3: Added preview for the GUST Font License Licensed fonts. More updates to come as I sift through the super-helpful links people have been giving me! Keep 'em coming! :)