eWeek: New Fonts to Improve GNOME’s Looks

“The GNOME Foundation and Bitstream Inc., a developer of font
technology, on Wednesday will announce here at LinuxWorld that ten
serif, sans serif and monospaced fonts will be released under a
special open-source license, once they have been adapted to meet
the requirements for technical use.

“The move will bring advanced font capabilities to developers
and users of free and open source software. The Bitstream Vera
fonts will be available for free copying and redistribution and can
be modified as long as the font name is changed. The fonts cannot
be packaged for sale by themselves, but can be sold with any
software…

“‘This agreement with Bitstream will enhance the experience and
graphics capabilities of corporate, enterprise, educational,
governmental and individual GNOME users and will give powerful
tools to open-source developers everywhere,’ said Miguel de Icaza,
the GNOME Foundation’s president and chief technology officer of
Ximian Inc…”

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