- From: Joseph M. Reagle Jr. <reagle@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:04:33 -0500
- To: robert.wilhelm@freetype.org
- Cc: "Dean Jackson" <dean.jackson@cmis.csiro.au>, www-archive@w3.org
Robert, On your related projects page [1] you note a number of utilities that convert from TT to other font formats. There is also a TT to SVG [2] converter [3] which I thought I'd bring to your attention, but I primarily want to ask you a question: I'm trying to collect a set of letter forms (of good "jobbing" and decorative quality ) under open licenses that we can covert to SVG and then encourage people to use instead of bit mapped graphics. Postscript [4] and Ghostscript [5] are obvious candidates, but I haven't figured out the nuances of their licenses in this context quite yet. Can you recommend any letter forms under a license that could be converted to SVG and used on Web pages arbitrarily? [1] http://freetype.sourceforge.net/projects.html [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/fonts.html [3] http://www.steadystate.co.uk/svg/ [4] GNU Fonts: I'm unclear about the implications of font use under GPL? (Does that mean any pages using such fonts must also be available under GPL, or is this LGPL?) http://softrak.stepwise.com/Apps/WebObjects/Softrak.woa/1/wa/displayPackage?package=133&os=10 [5] Ghostsript "free fonts" but unclear what the license as they are donated from UWW++ http://www.math.usouthal.edu/docs/gs/Fonts.htm __ Joseph Reagle Jr. W3C Policy Analyst mailto:reagle@w3.org IETF/W3C XML-Signature Co-Chair http://www.w3.org/People/Reagle/
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